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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
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Glossary for the 21st Century a starting
point by Dr. Gregor Wolbring |
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Disability |
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If one hears the term disability or disabled person or… often two different aspects are covered by the term a) disability… is used to describe the body and its functioning and b) its used to describe the social environmental parameter a person with a certain body functioning faces. I do believe it is better to use different terms for the two areas of body image and social reality. This is reflected in the definitions below |
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Medical model of Disability |
People disabled by their body-structure related sub-species typical functioning |
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Social model of disability |
People disabled by the attitudinal and environmental barriers they experience due to their body-structure related sub-species typical functioning that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others |
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Transhumanized medical model of disability |
People disabled by their body structure related sub-species and species typical functioning (everyone not performing beyond species typical functioning). |
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Transhumanized
social model of disability |
People
disabled by the attitudinal and environmental barriers they experience due to
their body-structure related sub-species
and species typical functioning that hinder their full and effective
participation in society on an equal basis with others |
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The body image |
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Impairment/medical
deficiency model of the body/body image |
A body that is labelled to function sub-species typical |
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Transhumanized version of Impairment/medical deficiency model of the body/body image |
A body that is labelled to function sub-species and species typical |
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Vari-ability/
non medical/non deficiency model of the body/body image |
A vari-ability in bodily functioning that differs from the species typical norm but does not exceed the species typical norm and is seen as a variation and not a deviation |
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Transhumanized
understanding of Variability/ non
medical/non deficiency model of the body/body image |
A vari-ability in bodily functioning that exceed the species typical norm and is seen as a variation and not a deviation |
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The person |
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Disabled person |
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, |
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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, |
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Impaired person |
Everyone who identifies oneself as having a subnormative functioning, deficient body based on a species-typical norm. |
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Vari-abled person |
Everyone who identifies oneself as having a vari-ability in bodily functioning that differs from the species-typical norm but does not exceed the species typical norm. |
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Vari-abled and disabled person |
Everyone who identifies oneself as having a vari-ability in bodily functioning that 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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Transhumanized vari-abled person |
Everyone who identifies oneself as having a beyond species-typical functioning variability in bodily functioning that differs from the species typical norm. This could be achieved by a) external means by shaping the environment, or b) internal means by modifying ones bodily structures |
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Transhumanized vari-abled and disabled person |
Everyone who identifies oneself as having a beyond species-typical functioning variability in bodily functioning that differs from the species typical norm and 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. |
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Examples of different
combination of body image/image of the person and concept of disability |
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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, |
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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 |
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Social model of disability, neutral model of the person (no legal or international policy text with this version exist to my knowledge) |
results from the interaction between a person with a given body structure related functioning 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, |
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Social model of disability, social model of the
person; vari-abled disabled person (no legal or international policy text with this version exist to my knowledge) |
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, |
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Social model of disability, transhumanist model of the person; transhuman impaired person |
disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments (species and sub-species typical functioning) and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others, |
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Ableism |
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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 (1-3) |
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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 species typical 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) |
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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
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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’. |
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Transhumanized
Form of Ableism (1-3)
(environment related) |
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Ability Studies (1-3) |
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 (1-3) 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,(6) •
new life forms,(7-10) and looks among others at areas such as •
ableism supported prejudism’s •
ableism differences between cultures •
ableism driven judgement of countries •
ableism and development •
influence of ableism on numerous concepts such as biological diversity,
cultural diversity and culture of peace and interpretation of documents
treaties and laws(11; 12)
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Models (identity)
and determinants (interventions) of Health |
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If one deals with models and determinants of health one
in the end deals with two issues. The models of health define the client
(animal human) and the cause whereby the determinants define the intervention |
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Medical model (identity, bodily reality part) of a
person | ||