Course: Disability and a Good Life: Thinking through Disability

In the video above, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson explains her view that eugenics is still alive today in various forms. She focuses largely on the idea that commerce is a driving force …

Disability is and always has been an important part of human diversity. In this video, Tom Shakespeare and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson discuss the rich contribution disabled people and disabled characters have …

This week you will explore three case studies in the history of disability. But before you do, we want to put these case studies into a wider historical context. After …

In this step, the course team discusses our various responses to the question “what is a good life?” that you saw in Step 1.4: What a good life means for …

In this short video, Tom Shakespeare — a well-known disability scholar and activist — outlines what the medical and social definitions of disability mean to him, saying that he finds …

Now that we’ve talked a little bit about living a good life, and about some disabling attitudes and stereotypes, let’s bring these two ideas together. In the above video, various …

In this brief clip, Eric Emerson — a Professor at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney — describes what he sees as the difference between impairment …

Throughout the course a diverse group of people with different impairments will talk about their lives and experiences being disabled. Some are invited experts. Others have agreed to tell us …