Impaired Encoding

Work injury compensation and pensions are often determined according to medical disability rating scales attributing a percentage to each impaired body part or function. Incorporated into central medical-administrative networks of committees and examinations, these produce disability as a calculable space. This article examines the specific case of the Israeli National Insurance regulations regarding work injuries of 1956 and analyzes the shifted order they set. Looking at this system in the specific historical context of transition from the British Mandate workmen's compensation system to the "disability percentages" system, provides insight into the process of structuring and stabilizing durable numerical forms and the production of centralized government. Drawing on conceptualizations regarding the sociotechnical role of classification systems, I contend that through encoding and calculating classifications of disability, heterogeneity is eliminated and an ordering based on physiology is "black boxed," illustrating the importance of technoscientific formations in structuring the "medical model of disability

Business · Knowledge management · Law and economics · Mandate · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Structuring · Computer Science · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Finance

• The Israeli perspective on educational pathways and future work intentions of young adults with physical disabilities

  Open Access•Limor Gadot, Yifat Faran et al.•Israel Affairs•2026

  Incluir item

• Explanation, engagement, exclusion

  Open Access•Charlotte Hamilton Clark, Martin Oliver•Teaching in Higher Education•2026

  Incluir item

• Smartphones as actors

  Open Access•Zhongxuan Lin, Liu Yang•International Journal of Cultural…•2021

  Incluir item

• What is good personal assistance made of? Results of a European survey

  Open Access•Teodor Mladenov•Disability & Society•2019

  Incluir item

• Realizing autonomy

  Adi Finkelstein, Esther‐Lee Marcus et al.•Disability & Society•2018

  Incluir item

• Ethopolitical media

  Open Access•Domenico Napolitano, Luigi Maria Sicca•Media Culture & Society•2024

  Incluir item

• Purity and Danger

  Mary Douglas•Purity and Danger•2003

  Incluir item

• The Disabled State

  Open Access•Deborah A Stone, Deborah Stone•The Disabled State•1984

  Incluir item

• The looping effects of human kinds

  Ian Hacking•Causal Cognition•1996

  Incluir item

• Disability in Theory

  Tobin Siebers•American Literary History•2001

  Incluir item

• Hospital Birth, Military Service and the Ties That Bind Them

  Omi Morgenstern-Leissner•Nashim•2006

  Incluir item

• The Chosen Body

  Meira Weiss, Martin Weiss•The Chosen Body•2002

  Incluir item

• The Disability Studies Reader

  Lennard J Davis•Disability Studies Reader•2013

  Incluir item

• The Politics of Disablement

  Open Access•Michael Oliver, M H Oliver et al.•The Politics of Disablement…•1990

  Incluir item

• Sorting Things Out

  G C Bowker, Susan Leigh Star•Sorting Things Out•1999

  Incluir item

• Powers of Freedom

  Open Access•Nikolas Rose, Nikolas S Rose•Powers of Freedom•1999

  Incluir item

• States of Knowledge

  Sheila Jasanoff•States of Knowledge•2004

  Incluir item

• Notes on the theory of the actor-network

  Open Access•John Law•Systemic Practice and Action…•1992

  Incluir item

• Independent Living and the Medical Model of Disability

  Simon Brisenden•Disability Handicap & Society•1986

  Incluir item

• Trust in Numbers

  Theodore M Porter•Trust in Numbers•1995

  Incluir item

• The Constitution of Impairment

  Bill Hughes•Disability & Society•1999

  Incluir item

• Calculable minds and manageable individuals

  Open Access•Nikolas Rose•History of the Human Sciences•1988

  Incluir item

• Discipline and the Material Form of Images

  Open Access•Michael Lynch, Michael S Lynch•Social Studies of Science•1985

  Incluir item

• Business and Social Policy

  John Gal•Social Service Review•2005

  Incluir item

• The Perils of Compensation in Social Welfare Policy

  John Gal•Social Service Review•2001

  Incluir item

• The New Disability History

  James W Trent, Paul K Longmore et al.•Journal of American History•2002

  Incluir item

• Purity and Danger

  Douglas M Staff, Mary Douglas et al.•Purity and Danger•2013

  Incluir item

• Trying Out the Wheelchair

  Open Access•Myriam Winance•Science Technology & Human Values•2006

  Incluir item

• Sociotechnical Practices and Difference

  Open Access•Ingunn Moser•Science Technology & Human Values•2006

  Incluir item

• On Qualculation, Agency, and Otherness

  Open Access•Michel Callon, John Law•Environment and Planning D…•2005

  Incluir item

• Science in Action

  Wiebe E Bijker, Bruno Latour•Technology and Culture•1988

  Incluir item

• Seeing like a State

  Open Access•Woost Mike, Mike Woost•American Ethnologist•2000

  Incluir item

• How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies

  Open Access•Bruno Latour•Body & Society•2004

  Incluir item

• A World of Standards but not a Standard World

  Stefan Timmerman, Steven Epstein•Annual Review of Sociology•2010

  Incluir item