Disability and Superhero Prosthetic Arm

What is it about?

Celebrity superheroes promoting affordable prosthetic technology in high media events at first glance seems a positive act that draws attention to the economic problem of making prosthetics for children. However this study suggests that such highly publicised events fail to tackle the real problem of prejudice that children face particularly by their peers because of their physical difference. Furthermore this study is critical of the militaristic associations of prosthetic technology promoted to children as well as way in which the body of a child is presented as 'deficient' and therefore a 'problem' a solve.

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Why is it important?

It is an original study that arguably spearheads a recent rise in academia concerned with disability and technology.