Pojem újmy v sociálně-konstruktivistickém modelu těla
| Title in English | The Concept of Harm in the Social-Constructionist Model of the Body |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Description | The contribution falls under the sub-theme of the conference titled "the role of society in relation to the individual" and focuses on the belief that the body is a social construct, a view developed especially within feminism, post-structuralism, and contemporary disability studies. In the latter discipline, this belief is most evident in the so-called social model of disability, which holds that physical disabilities are not the result of an objective bodily dysfunction—that is, an internal property of the disabled body—but are instead solely the result of the prejudices of so-called healthy people toward different forms of embodiment, or of society's failure to provide support and meet the needs of individuals with alternative forms of embodiment. The social constructivist view of the human body leads to a number of consequences that are difficult to grasp. One such consequence is the notion that pain accompanying many disabilities is not objectively bad. In general, social constructivists are compelled to accept that an individual can never suffer harm as a result of a deterioration in their own qualities, but only because of changes in how they are perceived by the surrounding society. In social constructivism, harm is always relational. |
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