V. Kousalya, Marie Aruna
Disability
Studies, have gained gushy prominence in the contemporary era, but if we do
scrutinize whether differently abled have attained their significance, freedom,
equality and accessibility similar to the able-bodied, it turns out to be a
debatable concept because the naked truth is thunderous ‘no’. The lack of
inclusive mentality among able-bodied who set norms as a ruling class is the
foremost cause to circumscribe differently abled towards the fringes of
passivity. The intervention of medical humanities is indeed victorious in
deflating the superstitious beliefs associated with it, but in turn it
throttles the capability of differently abled under rigorous medicalization of
biomedical cognition. This paper is an endeavor to study and analyze the
operation of biomedical knowledge and physician and able-bodied politics in
generalization of differently abled and how it distorts their construction of
personal identity and sociability. Set against this backdrop, it applies the
theories of affective empathy, intersubjectivity and narrative humility in
reconnoitering the life, tribulations and trauma of differently abled by taking
Chib’s One Little Finger as a
specimen.
disability,
humility, empathy, medical humanities, abstraction, prejudice etc.
VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022