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‘misdiagnosis can have psychological and financial implications,’ p.181 ‘some may not have diabetes; others are misclassified and may not be managed according to correct guidance;’ p.186.

‘On the one hand, life in general and human life in particular are literally “obliterated”: dissolved into streams of letters and symbols’ p.70. ‘Living beings are emptied as it were, as the “flesh of life” is digitalized.’ ‘Biology is not destiny, but changeable, open to optimization: a constructive project, fueled by technoscientific promises.’ P.85. whileContinue reading “Article Reference: ‘The obliteration of life: depersonalization and disembodiment in the terabyte era’”

‘Marx argued that in the most significant complex of technical changes of his time, the coming of large scale mechanised production, social relations molded technology, rather than vice versa’ p.473 “the historic mode of production, i.e. the form of society, is determined by the development of the productive forces, i.e. the development technology.” P.475. ”Continue reading “Article reference: ‘Marx and the Machine’”

Tanya Titchkosky (2012) The Ends of the Body as PedagogicPossibility, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 34:3-4, 82-93, DOI:10.1080/10714413.2012.686851 ‘Disability-exclusion is normalized through an array of cultural processes thatmake ‘‘disability’’ represent limit without possibility’ P.82

Buttigieg, N., Ersser, S. & Cowdell, F., 2017. The influence of social stigma on diabetes self-management amongst Maltese individuals with diabetes. The European Journal of Public Health, 27(suppl3), pp.30–30. P.30 ‘In fact, the burden of stigma of a particular disease, is sometimes noted to be far greater than that caused by the disease itself.’ ‘soughtContinue reading “The influence of social stigma on diabetes self management amongst Maltese individuals with diabetes’”

P.855. ‘Stigma entails adverse social judgements about enduring features of identity’ = Definition of stigma p.855. ‘While the emotional and physical aspects of diabetes are well described, [3], the social aspects of diabetes remain under-researched.’ p.856. ‘A recent narrative review found that people with type 1 diabetes reported stigma by association with type 2 diabetes,Continue reading “Article Reference:’Diabetes stigma and its association with diabetes outcomes: a cross-sectional study of adults with type 1 diabetes’ by SJPD”

Rosi Braidotti 2013 Polity Press Cambridge p.40. ‘There is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today.’ p.90. ‘We can therefore safely start from the assumption thatContinue reading “Book Reference: ‘Posthuman’ by Rosi Braidotti”

Received: 24 February 2020; Accepted: 7 July 2020; Published: 10 July 2020 file:///Users/emily/Downloads/philosophies-05-00011.pdf Accessed: 19/01/2021 © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ‘With all these tools at our disposal, why is it thatContinue reading “Article Reference: ‘Marketing the Prosthesis: Supercrip and Superhuman Narratives in Contemporary Cultural Representations’ by Chia Wei Fahn”

Curtis, Valerie. “Why Disgust Matters.” Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, vol. 366, no. 1583, 2011, pp. 3478–3490. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23035750. Accessed 12 Jan. 2021. P.2. ‘Disgust is used and abused in society, both a force for social cohesion and a cause of prejudice and stigma’ P.2. ‘Disgust impacts on many aspects of our lives, from our individual,Continue reading “Article Reference: ‘Why Disgust Matters’”