The order of classification and the disorder of the human being

The order of classification and the disorder of the human being

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Diagnoses are not only objective phenomena.: they are products of a subjective language and historical conditions.When we study the history of disabled people, we find that we as professionals create classifying order based on predetermined, historical criteria.

This situation creates a general problem.We are not able to find a helen dale samson universal truth, but only local and cultural conceptions of different kinds of disability.Of course the disability itself is not always a construct.

There are blind, deaf, mentally retarded people, but the meaning of their disability is constructed based on historically given conceptions.When we today use words such as sick, healthy, normal and deviant, where do we then set the boundary? How do we in fine mic our present biogenetic universe avoid preventing and eliminating conditions which are not considered unbearable, maybe not even considered a disease, by those implicated? What orders do we produce and what kind of limitation of the human disorder will be the result?.