Home Home About Me Home Article CV past Lectures Radio/TV appearances/Speeches Short Bio/recent and to come Lectures My biweekly column: The Choice is Yours Online courses I teach Non english language/countries/and Youth Home Deutsch Spanish/Portuguese Africa Asia Youth Resources Home Documents DPI and Bioethics Journals Issues A-I Home Abuse of disabled people AIDS/HIV/Disabled people Artificial Chromosome Artificial womb Banff Bio/Nanochip Biodiversity/Biopiracy Bioethic Bio/Nano weapon/soldier China Cloning Cybernetics Disability Studies Disabled people and Technology Perception/Reality of disabled people Disabled children Arts and Advocacy of dis people Law/Statistic of dis people Dis people in rural areas Disabled women Down Syndrome Equality Rights Eugenics Euthanasia Feminist bioethics Food/and other Biotech Futile Care Gene Therapy Genetic Discrimination Human Enhancement Genetics general/PID/Prenatal Testing Globalisation/Ethics Gov-ethic committees Health research/Qualy/Daly/ Holocaust Human Rights Issues J-Z Home Latimer/Infanticide Infotechnology Managed Care Nanotechnology Native disabled/non dis people Personhood psychiatric violence, deception and coercion Public Consultation Qualy/Daly/Health research Religion, Faith, Spirituality, Church, God and Disabled people Research on human subjects Sex selection Siamese Twins Singer, Peter Stemcell Sterilisation of disabled people Treaty for a Genetic Commons Transhumanism/Bionics/AI/Cryonics UNESCO Ethics of water Wrongful birth/life suits Xeno/Organtransplantation/disabled

The Glossary is a work in progress and might have to be extended in the future or changed depending on science and technology and societal developments Version 31 December 2007

Glossary for the 21^st Century a starting point by Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Term	Definition
Disability
Medical model of Disability	People disabled by their body-structure related functioning (sub-species typical functioning)
Social model of disability	People disabled by the attitudinal and environmental barriers they experience due to their  non normative body-structure related functioning that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others (species typical being the norm)
Transhumanized medical model of disability	People disabled by their body structure related functioning (everyone not performing beyond species typical functioning).
Transhumanized social model of disability	People disabled by the attitudinal and environmental barriers they experience because they do exhibit beyond species typical functioning face that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Social model of disability, medical model of the person; impaired disabled person (UN Convention on the rights of persons with Disabilities)	disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments (sub-species typical functioning) and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Social model of disability, medical model of the person; impaired disabled person ( ICF)	the outcome or result of a complex relationship between an individual’s health condition and personal factors, and of the external factors that represent the circumstances in which the individual lives
Social model of disability, neutral model of the person	results from the interaction between a person with a given body structure related functionlng and attitudinal and environmental barriers persons face due to their body structure related functioning that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Social model of disability, social model of the person; vari-abled disabled person	results from the interaction between a person with a variation in body structure related functioning and attitudinal and environmental barriers persons face due to their variation in body structure related functioning that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Social model of disability, transhumanist model of the person; transhuman impaired person	disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments (species typical functioning) and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
The person
Disabled	A consequence of the body structure/function related disability one encounters
Disabled person	Everyone who encounters body structure/function related attitudinal and environmental barriers that hindesr one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Person with a Disability	Everyone who encounters body structure/function related attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Impaired person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having a subnormative functioning, deficient body based on a species-typical norm.
Vari-abled person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having a vari-ability in bodily functioning which differs from the species-typical norm. However one should keep in mind that often people are identified by others as impaired even if the person does not identify as such.
Vari-abled and disabled person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having a vari-ability in bodily functioning which differs from the species typical norm and who encounters body structure/function related, ableism related attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. However one should keep in mind that often people are identified by others as impaired even if the person does not identify as such.
Impaired and disabled person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having subnormative, deficient   bodily functioning based on a species typical norm and who encounters body structure/function related, ableism related attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
Transhumanized impaired person (techno poor impaired person)	Everyone who identifies oneself as being deficient because one is not able to improve oneself beyond Homo sapiens normative functioning whether through a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures.
Transhumanized disabled person	Everyone who is not enhanced beyond Homo sapiens normative functioning whether through a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures and who encounters body structure/function related attitudinal and environmental barriers mostly justified by a transhumanized version of ableism that hinder one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. However one should keep in mind that often people are identified by others as impaired even if the person does not identify as such.
Transhumanized impaired and disabled person (techno poor impaired and disabled person)	Everyone who identifies oneself as being deficient because one is not able to improve oneself beyond Homo sapiens normative functioning whether through a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures and who encounters attitudinal and environmental barriers mostly justified by a transhumanized version of ableism that hinder one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others,
Transhumanized vari-abled person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having a beyond species-typical functioning variability in bodily functioning which differs from the species typical norm. This could be employed by a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures However one should keep in mind that often people are identified by others as impaired even if the person does not identify as such
Transhumanized vari-abled and disabled person	Everyone who identifies oneself as having a beyond species-typical functioning variability in bodily functioning which differs from the species typical norm which was achieved through a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures and who therefore encounters attitudinal and environmental barriers mostly justified by an Anti-transhumanized version of ableism that hinder one’s full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
Ableism
Ableism	A set of beliefs, processes and practices that produce based on ones abilities a particular kind of understanding of oneself, one’s body and one’s relationship with others of one’s species, other species and one’s environment and includes one being judged by others. Ableism exhibits a favouritism for certain abilities that are projected as essential while at the same time labelling real or perceived deviation from or lack of these essential abilities as a diminished state of being leading or contributing to the justification of a variety of other isms (1;2)
Transhumanized Form of Ableism(1-3) (generic)	A set of beliefs, processes and practices that perceive the improvement of functioning of biological structures beyond typical boundaries as essential. The transhumanized version of ableism, sees all biological structures as limited, defective and in need of constant improvement beyond biological structure typical boundaries. The transhumanized version of ableism exhibits the favouritism of beyond biological structure typical abilities and perceived biological structures as deficient as being in a diminished state of being if they are not enhanced beyond biological structure typical abilities. (1-3)
Transhumanized Form of Ableism(1-3)(human related)	A set of beliefs, processes and practices that perceive the improvement of human body abilities beyond homo sapiens typical boundaries as essential. This transhumanized version of ableism, sees all human bodies as limited, defective and in need of constant improvement of their abilities beyond homo sapiens -typical boundaries. This transhumanized version of ableism exhibits the favouritism of beyond homo sapiens typical abilities and perceived humans as deficient as being in a diminished state of being human if they are not enhanced beyond homo sapiens typical abilities. (1-3). The transhumanist body ability enhancement can be of three types a) external by shaping the environment, b) internal reversal by modifying bodily structures in an reversible fashion and c) internal non-reversal by modifying bodily structures in a non-reversible fashion
Transhumanized Form of Ableism (1-3)(animal related)	A set of beliefs, processes and practices which champions the especially cognitive enhancement of animal species beyond species typical boundaries leading to cognitive or otherwise ‘enabled species’.
Transhumanized Form of Ableism(1-3) (environment related)	A set of beliefs, processes and practices which champions the a) enhancement of especially the Homo sapiens  beyond species typical boundaries to cope with the environmental challenges to come b) shaping the environment (geo-engineering, gated biospheres…)
Ability Studies	is the study of the usage of the term ability. It investigates a) the social, cultural, legal, political, ethical and other angles which influence the judgment of any given ability and which leads to the favouritism of one ability over another b) the impact and consequence of the favouritism of certain abilities and rejection of others c) the consequences of ableism in its different forms and its relationship and impact on other isms d) the impact of new and emerging technologies on ableism and the favouritism towards certain abilities and rejection of other abilities e) what abilities would lead to the most beneficial scenario for the maximum amount of people in the world Ability studies includes among others • the traditional disabled people, • the techno poor disabled,(3;4) • the people who gain enhancements,(5) • other non human targets for ability modifications, • new life forms,(6) and looks among others at areas such as • ableism supported prejudism’s • ableism differences between cultures • ableism driven judgement of countries • &n