(Re)claiming Agency: Care, Trauma and the Medical Institution
£10.00
Edition of 50.
(Re)Claiming Agency: Care, Trauma and the Medical Institution
A5, 64 pages, black and white laser printed, perfect bound, 2022, (Sunday’s Print Service, Glasgow)
This essay explores why reclaiming agency and being able to make
autonomous choices over the care we receive, is integral in
deconstructing ableism within the existing power structures of
capitalism and other forms of oppression. Exploring the doctor-patient relationship and how medical practice is founded on a Cartesian conception of the mind as distant from the body, BDSM as a tool for survivor hood, the links between capitalism and ableism, and reflecting on crip interdependence, looking at the Disability Justice movement and other care collectives.
