Welcome to my new blog, The Chronic Scholar! Here I will be bringing what I learn through my PhD program in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago to you! I'm thankful for this opportunity to bring together patient experience and advocacy and the research that talks about it! Got questions? So do … Continue reading Hello and Welcome
The Ideology of Ability
Tobin Siebers was a disability scholar. His book, Disability Theory discusses various disability discourses. Discourse, in the ivory tower (academia), does not necessarily mean conversation, though we can argue that through conversation discourse is created. Rather, discourse in the ivory tower means the establishment of knowledge. Who creates and maintains discourse contributes to who has and … Continue reading The Ideology of Ability