caa a22 4500 475788893 CHVBK 20180406123706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009025125203 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009025125203 Shildrick Margrit Staffordshire University, UK, 15 Huskisson St., L7 7LN, Liverpool, UK aut Becoming Vulnerable: Contagious Encounters and the Ethics of Risk [Elektronische Daten] [Margrit Shildrick] In western discourse the notion of the contagious, the unclean or the contaminated is never just a neutral descriptor but carries the weight of all that stands against—and paradoxically secures—the categories of normative ontology and epistemology. Set against the ideal closure and invulnerability of the self's "clean and proper body,” this paper investigates the condition of disability as a potentially contaminatory threat. But the given precarious psychic constitution of the subject, and the ontological insecurity of self performativity, can we reconfigure vulnerability not as a term of weakness, but as the very possibility of becoming? Human Sciences Press, Inc., 2000 Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/4(2000-12-01), 215-227 1041-3545 21:4<215 2000 21 10912 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009025125203 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009025125203 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shildrick Margrit Staffordshire University, UK, 15 Huskisson St., L7 7LN, Liverpool, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/4(2000-12-01), 215-227 1041-3545 21:4<215 2000 21 10912 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer