Silent Body

THE BODY SILENT

★What maintains the eternal vitality of human beings?
Fear, misunderstanding, and helplessness: an anthropological report on a disability journey

★Not just to heal, but to understand★ Finding ultimate freedom in the contours of thought and the transmission of imagination★ The only disability is renunciation; the disease of "life" is incurable★ When Robert Murphy was at the pinnacle of his career as an anthropologist, he felt the first symptoms of an illness—a spinal cord tumor—that would eventually lead him on an odyssey more unfamiliar than any fieldwork in the Amazon. The tumor compressed his nerves, slowly but irreversibly transforming Murphy into a quadriplegic. In this gripping book, Murphy, both an "observer" and an anthropological "informant," uses his own experience to interpret the inner worlds of people with disabilities and explore the social nature of illness and disability. He argues that paralysis, like all disabilities, infringes on people's identity, social status, and connections to others. Disability is socially defined and culturally given meaning.

2022-08-01

上海教育出版社

Humanities

256

9787572005589