The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability
Reconstituting the ‘disordered’ brain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12314440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niklas Altermark (0000-0001-7114-1431, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1460-1472 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687599.2014.953244 |
| OpenAlex | W1967887280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
During the last two or three decades, neuroscience has changed how we understand brain functioning. This shift, which is re-conceptualizing the relationship between the materiality of the brain and consciousness, is bound to have implications for intellectual disability, which is commonly seen as a condition of the brain. At present, examinations of intellectual disability that deploy techniques and concepts from neuroscience constitute a growing research field that has been welcomed in some quarters of the disability research community. The purpose of this article is to urge for caution as regards this development. I argue that the neuroscience of intellectual disability is embodying ideological propositions that need to be problematized. By theorizing the relationship between biology and politics and examining neuroscientific publications on intellectual disability, I argue that this strand of research is underpinned by a discursive division between normal and pathological, that it therefore constitutes a continuation of understanding intellectual disability as a ‘disorder’ and that any firm separation between the ‘nature’ of intellectual disability and processes of power is inherently problematic. To be able to critically approach the neuroscience of intellectual disability, it is vital that disability researchers problematize the relationship between biology and politics
Consciousness · Disability studies · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Intellectual disability · Materiality (auditing · Neuroethics · Paradigm shift · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Down syndrome and intellectual disability research · Gender Studies · Neurological disorders and treatments · Neuroscience · Psychology
The normal and the pathological
The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
Disability Rights and Wrongs
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Racism, IQ and Down's Syndrome
Bodies that matter
Madness and Civilization
Bodies That Matter
On the Normal and the Pathological
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |