What’s Normal: The Anthropology of Disability with Tom Pearson | Reimagining the Good Life podcast

What does it mean to be human? Who counts as a human being and why? Anthropologist Tom Pearson has been asking these questions for a living for a long time, and then his daughter was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, prompting him to ask the questions all over again in his latest book, An Ordinary Future.
Amy Julia and Tom discuss:
- Normalcy, disability, and the human experience
- Cultural perceptions of disability and the historical context of eugenics and institutionalization
- How prenatal testing influences societal views of disability
- Interdependence and its relationship to the human experience
- The ways disability is a source of innovation and community, not just an inevitability
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