Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (Norton Stories)

One of BookRiot’s Ten Best Disability Books of the Year
Shortlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards

“Wonderfully lucid.” ―Andrew Leland, New York Times Book Review

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning people called her an “inspiration” while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don’t want what the abled assume they want―nor are they generally asked. Almost everyone will experience disability at some point in their lives, yet the abled persistently frame disability as an individual’s problem rather than a social one.