Ep 5: Making Illness

Step into the crip time warp with Élaina, Professor Felicity Callard, and Dr Mich Ciurria to discuss how we create knowledge of, about, and on illness. We discuss the “non-binary” category of illness, academic fantasies about research co-production, and why disabled people should be the ones who define disability. Everyone on this episode is a disabled academic with various levels of job security, all of whom made the gamble to be extremely vulnerable. I entrust them in your care.

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification by Felicity Callard

“Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature” by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Royal Free Epidemic of 1955: A Reconsideration by McEvedy and Beard
Disabled People Should Define Disability by Mich Ciurria

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, edited by Shelley Lynn Tremain

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Hosting, producing, and editing is done by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

Music is by Morgan Kluck-Keil

This podcast is made with the support of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, at the University of Edinburgh.