Disanimality when disability, illness, and animality meet Michael Lundblad

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundblad, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in disability ethics and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies--Moral and ethical aspects.

Disability studies.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

When disability, illness, and animality meet

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2026.

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

If you are an advocate for people with disabilities, should you also be vegan? How does your position on assisted suicide relate to how you think about euthanizing pets? Recent work in disability studies has called for greater engagement with animal studies, but disability activists and scholars have long been uncomfortable with comparisons between animals and people with disabilities or chronic and terminal illnesses. The long and problematic history of dehumanizing and animalizing disabled people has often led to the need to reclaim their humanity and basic human rights. What, then, should be the relationship between disability and animal rights? 'Disanimality' reveals how certain forms of animal advocacy can lead to greater discomfort for disability activists, such as universalist calls for veganism and abolitionist animal rights

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Posthumanist Disanimality

Animality and the Animal in Disability Studies

Dissing the Human in Disability Studies

New Directions in Disability Studies

1 Down on the Factory Farm

The Animal in Critical Animal Studies

Posthumanist Animality

2 Slow Violence and Damaged Bodies

Embracing Animality

Welcome to the Jungle

Monstrous Disability

Restoration

3 Animal Pedagogies at the End of Life (Writing)

Animal Wisdom at the End of Life

The Cat Pointing at the Moon

4 Assisted Dying

The Brain Is Where the Human Lies

The Bioethics of Killing Your "Self" (in Advance)

Death with Dignitas

The Inscrutable Animal in Pain

5 Zombie Disposability

Infected with Terrorism

Zombie Debility and Disposability

From Disability to Animalized Resistance

6 Companion Prosthetics

Posthumanist Prosthesis

Zombie Humanism, Queer Crip Intimacies

Personal Assistance

In the Care of Animals

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197845707

0197845703

OCLC:

1583715556

Publisher Number:

CIPO000374006

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license