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Um den Schlaf ist es seit der europäischen Neuzeit schlecht bestellt – aus ganz verschiedenen Gründen. Das »Wacht endlich auf!«, mit dem wir heute zunehmend konfrontiert werden, scheint daher auf den ersten Blick nicht beunruhigend. Aber: Dieser Schein trügt. Der Beitrag untersucht die Implikationen dieses heute von verschiedensten Seiten verlautbarten Imperativs.
The Standard View of Disability (SVD) presupposes that having a disability invariably worsens a person's quality of life. Some scholars have identified that the judgements of this perspective are informed by an ableism that assumes the able-bodied perspective as the norm and attempts to isolate the body from its social determinants. Here I will try to answer the following questions: Are the generalisations that the SVD presupposes to describe the quality of life of people epistemically justified? What ethical consequences does the SVD entail for health decision-making?
I draw on Nora Berenstain's concept of “epistemic exploitation” and present a series of precisions to consider the asymmetric relation between marginalized groups and public and private institutions. I am particularly interested in those interactions in which the former are called upon to collaborate, under conditions that sustain and reinforce the asymmetry, with institutional projects that will affect their communities and will be executed with or without their participation. I will focus on trans groups, but epistemic extortion is not exclusive to them.
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