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Beyond disability a matter of listening Anne-Lyse Chabert
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chabert, Anne-Lyse, author.
- Series:
- Disability studies (Lived Places Publishing)
- Disability studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chabert, Anne-Lyse.
- Disabilities--Philosophy.
- Disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Psychology--Biography.
- People with disabilities.
- Disabilities--Social aspects.
- Mind and body.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Miller Place, NY Lived Places Publishing 2025
- Summary:
- How does a neurodegenerative disease transform one's perspective on life and society? Beyond Disability is a collection of essays reflecting on life affected by a neurodegenerative disease. The author shares her personal struggles and her philosophical approach to life, intertwining a daily fight for survival with deep reflections on society, interaction, and self. Through this process, she offers valuable insights for researchers in human sciences while advocating for the importance of understanding disability. The book ultimately delivers a message of living life fully despite circumstances
- Contents:
- Part I. Personal life [Intimité]
- Two ways of seeing things
- What would a human life be if never tested by fatigue?
- Shedding light on how we depend on others
- Like a tango, a dance like no other
- Harsh reality attenuated A speech read on my behalf at an occasion commemorating my late father
- Part II. Devising solutions [Inventions]
- There are so many ways to dance your life What prevents us from going around in circles To each their own world, to each their own path
- Some thoughts on the concept of freedom
- Part III. Social norms [Institutions]
- What matters to us?
- Giving birth to life: On the importance of not eliminating divergence
- In the midst of life we are in death, is this how people die?
- Part IV. Breaking new ground [Inouï]
- Calligraphy using the mouth: The technical transposal of a skill
- Writing differently
- Parachute
- Doctoral thesis: Acknowledgments
- Fashioning a life for yourself in a world with which you are at odds
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed August 14, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version Chabert, Anne-Lyse Beyond disability
- ISBN:
- 9781917566520
- 1917566522
- 9781917566537
- 1917566530
- 9781918526059
- 1918526052
- OCLC:
- 1561147291
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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