The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority
This essay analyzes a controversy involving Amelia (Mia) Rivera, a three-year old girl who was denied a life-saving kidney transplant in January 2012. As reported by Mia's mother, Chrissy, on her blog post, Mia was denied the kidney transplant because of her mental disability. Throughout the pu...
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| description | This essay analyzes a controversy involving Amelia (Mia) Rivera, a three-year old girl who was denied a life-saving kidney transplant in January 2012. As reported by Mia's mother, Chrissy, on her blog post, Mia was denied the kidney transplant because of her mental disability. Throughout the public discussion that took place over a few short weeks, we argue Mia's ineligibility was rearticulated through rhetorics of motherhood, unjust body language, and questions about medical authority. we suggest this indicates that descriptions of the body and its able-ness carry more weight in the public's understanding of health issues than does medical authority. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-692970ecf13644bdba81e360af60fc1c2022-12-22T02:49:18ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesDisability Studies Quarterly1041-57182159-83712016-03-0136110.18061/dsq.v36i1.44293472The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical AuthorityRachel D. Davidson0Lara C. Stache1Hanover CollegeGovernors State UniversityThis essay analyzes a controversy involving Amelia (Mia) Rivera, a three-year old girl who was denied a life-saving kidney transplant in January 2012. As reported by Mia's mother, Chrissy, on her blog post, Mia was denied the kidney transplant because of her mental disability. Throughout the public discussion that took place over a few short weeks, we argue Mia's ineligibility was rearticulated through rhetorics of motherhood, unjust body language, and questions about medical authority. we suggest this indicates that descriptions of the body and its able-ness carry more weight in the public's understanding of health issues than does medical authority.http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4429body rhetoricmotherhoodmedical authoritypublic controversycritical analysis |
| spellingShingle | Rachel D. Davidson Lara C. Stache The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority Disability Studies Quarterly body rhetoric motherhood medical authority public controversy critical analysis |
| title | The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority |
| title_full | The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority |
| title_fullStr | The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority |
| title_short | The Body and its Able-ness: Articulating In/Eligibility through Rhetorics of Motherhood, Unjust Language, and Questionable Medical Authority |
| title_sort | body and its able ness articulating in eligibility through rhetorics of motherhood unjust language and questionable medical authority |
| topic | body rhetoric motherhood medical authority public controversy critical analysis |
| url | http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4429 |
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