Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.

• | Author: Eli Clare
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2017
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780822362876
• | ISBN-10: 0822362872