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Direct linkGoodey, C. F. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Western medicine has a long history of accounting for behaviour by reducing the body to ultimate explanatory entities. In pre-modern medicine these were invisible "animal spirits" circulating the body. In modern medicine, they are "genes". Both raise questions. The psychological phenotype is defined by human consensus, varying according to time…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Scientific Research, Genetics, Stereotypes
