{"title":"Disability and the Medical Posthumanities.","authors":"Dan Goodley","doi":"10.26522/posthumanismjournal.v2i2.4341","DOIUrl":"10.26522/posthumanismjournal.v2i2.4341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper makes a case for <i>being in</i> but <i>not of</i> the medical posthumanities, cognisant of our contemporary times that continue to render some human beings as valued and others as expendable. I provide a brief reading of medical posthumanities before turning to a <i>field</i> (critical disability studies), an <i>event</i> (the deployment of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation notices to disabled people during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK) and a <i>respons</i>e (reflected in the activism of People First, the international movement of people with learning disabilities). I contemplate some tensions that emerge when the field, event and response rub up against the medical posthumanities, working with the humanist register, more-than-human possibilities, and human troubles. I conclude with the argument that unless the medical humanities engage with disability then they are in danger of 'ability-washing' their research and scholarship.</p>","PeriodicalId":521126,"journal":{"name":"Interconnections (St. Catharines, Ont.)","volume":"2 2","pages":"14-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618416/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145650775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}