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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the "interconstitutive" point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their "imperfect" bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become "an aspect of supplementarity" (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural body and the artificial hybrid, humanity and technology, and related issues. Concurrently critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, the essay lays out a balanced and complex picture of the merging of flesh, machine, and subject, and, by doing so, offers a reconceptualization of dis/ability and post/humanity in a futurist society from the perspectives of materiality, metaphoricity, and reflexivity of prosthetics.
Development and Society , 2017
The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucrat... more The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucratic legal authority of China, to being medicalized to some extent under Japanese colonialism, and then more fully in postWar Taiwan under Chinese Nationalist Party rule. The most recent trend has been toward de-medicalization due to social awareness and activism as well as the gradual application of international standards based on more variegated criteria. Impairment in traditional Chinese societies was categorized mainly for the purposes of measuring criminal punishment, taxation and compulsory labor. During Japanese colonization, disability statistics were used as a point of comparison with Western data, and the results were taken as a reference point in formulating local health policies. After the Chinese Nationalist Government arrived in Taiwan, disability measures became a key criterion of social welfare assessment. In 2007, accommodating international trends and steady growth in the government's health budget, Taiwan started to adopt the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as the basis for disability estimation and need assessment. This study uses ancient records and secondary sources to review the ways in which disability has changed over the course of Taiwan's history.
Papers by Hsiao-yu Sun
Concentric：Literary and Cultural Studies, Mar 1, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the "interconstitutive" point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their "imperfect" bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become "an aspect of supplementarity" (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural body and the artificial hybrid, humanity and technology, and related issues. Concurrently critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, the essay lays out a balanced and complex picture of the merging of flesh, machine, and subject, and, by doing so, offers a reconceptualization of dis/ability and post/humanity in a futurist society from the perspectives of materiality, metaphoricity, and reflexivity of prosthetics.
The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucrat... more The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucratic legal authority of China, to being medicalized to some extent under Japanese colonialism, and then more fully in post-War Taiwan under Chinese Nationalist Party rule. The most recent trend has been toward de-medicalization due to social awareness and activism as well as the gradual application of international standards based on more variegated criteria. Impairment in traditional Chinese societies was categorized mainly for the purposes of measuring criminal punishment, taxation and compulsory labor. During Japanese colonization, disability statistics were used as a point of comparison with Western data, and the results were taken as a reference point in formulating local health policies. After the Chinese Nationalist Government arrived in Taiwan, disability measures became a key criterion of social welfare assessment. In 2007, accommodating international trends and steady growth in t...
Concentric：Literary and Cultural Studies, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the ＂interconstitutive＂ point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their ＂imperfect＂ bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become ＂an aspect of supplementarity＂ (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural bod...
李美文 克拉拉. 威克與羅伯特. 舒曼《 A 小調鋼琴協奏曲》 …, 2011
Demystifying the Fantasies of Normalcy: The Discursive Construction of Disability in the Nineteen... more Demystifying the Fantasies of Normalcy: The Discursive Construction of Disability in the Nineteenth Century Hsiao-yu Sun National Sun Yat-sen University Anomaly appears only against the background provided by the paradigm. Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The ...
Encyclopedia of Disability, 2006
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the "interconstitutive" point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their "imperfect" bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become "an aspect of supplementarity" (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural body and the artificial hybrid, humanity and technology, and related issues. Concurrently critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, the essay lays out a balanced and complex picture of the merging of flesh, machine, and subject, and, by doing so, offers a reconceptualization of dis/ability and post/humanity in a futurist society from the perspectives of materiality, metaphoricity, and reflexivity of prosthetics.
Development and Society , 2017
The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucrat... more The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucratic legal authority of China, to being medicalized to some extent under Japanese colonialism, and then more fully in postWar Taiwan under Chinese Nationalist Party rule. The most recent trend has been toward de-medicalization due to social awareness and activism as well as the gradual application of international standards based on more variegated criteria. Impairment in traditional Chinese societies was categorized mainly for the purposes of measuring criminal punishment, taxation and compulsory labor. During Japanese colonization, disability statistics were used as a point of comparison with Western data, and the results were taken as a reference point in formulating local health policies. After the Chinese Nationalist Government arrived in Taiwan, disability measures became a key criterion of social welfare assessment. In 2007, accommodating international trends and steady growth in the government's health budget, Taiwan started to adopt the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as the basis for disability estimation and need assessment. This study uses ancient records and secondary sources to review the ways in which disability has changed over the course of Taiwan's history.
Concentric：Literary and Cultural Studies, Mar 1, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the "interconstitutive" point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their "imperfect" bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become "an aspect of supplementarity" (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural body and the artificial hybrid, humanity and technology, and related issues. Concurrently critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, the essay lays out a balanced and complex picture of the merging of flesh, machine, and subject, and, by doing so, offers a reconceptualization of dis/ability and post/humanity in a futurist society from the perspectives of materiality, metaphoricity, and reflexivity of prosthetics.
The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucrat... more The assessment of disability in Taiwan has changed historically from being part of the bureaucratic legal authority of China, to being medicalized to some extent under Japanese colonialism, and then more fully in post-War Taiwan under Chinese Nationalist Party rule. The most recent trend has been toward de-medicalization due to social awareness and activism as well as the gradual application of international standards based on more variegated criteria. Impairment in traditional Chinese societies was categorized mainly for the purposes of measuring criminal punishment, taxation and compulsory labor. During Japanese colonization, disability statistics were used as a point of comparison with Western data, and the results were taken as a reference point in formulating local health policies. After the Chinese Nationalist Government arrived in Taiwan, disability measures became a key criterion of social welfare assessment. In 2007, accommodating international trends and steady growth in t...
Concentric：Literary and Cultural Studies, 2018
Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, ... more Prosthesis has been a useful medium for thinking about the identity of people with disabilities, who often rely on artificial devices in their daily lives. Recent advances in technology have altered the biological body via so-called enhancement technologies, which can augment bodily forms and functions to improve human characteristics. Given its corrective abilities, prosthesis has become the ＂interconstitutive＂ point which links body and machine, blurring the borderline between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled, human and cyborg. People with disabilities are no longer the only ones using prostheses to fix their bodily deficiencies; non-disabled people need them even more to modify their ＂imperfect＂ bodies. Being human, as Lennard Davis points out, has become ＂an aspect of supplementarity＂ (69). The essay will take a biocultural approach to the study of the scientificized and medicalized body to construct a dialectical discourse between ableism and dis/ability, the natural bod...
李美文 克拉拉. 威克與羅伯特. 舒曼《 A 小調鋼琴協奏曲》 …, 2011
Demystifying the Fantasies of Normalcy: The Discursive Construction of Disability in the Nineteen... more Demystifying the Fantasies of Normalcy: The Discursive Construction of Disability in the Nineteenth Century Hsiao-yu Sun National Sun Yat-sen University Anomaly appears only against the background provided by the paradigm. Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The ...
Encyclopedia of Disability, 2006