The Art of FlourishingLiz BowenLabel: Oxford University Press IncDescription: Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together--and even thrive together--amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces discussing everything from moving with guide dogs to hiking on wheels to nurturing chosen family The Art of Flourishing offers a window into the innumerable and varied ways scholars artists writers and thought leaders with disabilities understand what it means to flourish.For some it means contesting the medical establishment's narratives of technological salvation that attempt to fix people who don't need fixing. For others it means cultivating interdependent networks of artistic collaboration or it means having agency in choosing how one appears in and navigates public space. Based on a series of public talks hosted by The Hastings Center a bioethics research institute and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities this volume demonstrates the incredible range of priorities practices and possibilities that characterize disabled experience. It also invites both scholarly and public audiences to imagine what it would take to build a world in which everyone gets to exercise their own capacities in ways they find meaningful.
