Impairment itself,

when scholars make arguments about the representation of disability in SF, they must also be cognizant to not ignore or discount the lived realities of people with disabilities.

There is a great deal of pressure to rehabilitate, or to “make normal,” the disabled person or otherwise risk condemnation from both the medical and social communities.

aura of deficiency and lack

considering the material conditions and kind of body that is being “left behind.”

also a normative construct—as bodily or cognitive difference should not be equated with the sense of deficiency that attends the word—

A DS reading of prosthetics and other medical modifications in SF must be careful not to idealize the transformative potential of such technologies while neglecting a discussion of the bodies most often targeted for and affected by such interventions.

disability not as an individual defect but as the product of social injustice,

Vulnerability is positioned, then, as that which impairs agency in the ‘damaged’ other while inspiring moral action on the part of the secure self to make good the perceived lack”