In the article, “Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century,” author Lennard J. Davis, who is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, argues that disability was not a problem until the concept of ‘norm’ was constructed. Davis carries many questions in his article. He was wondering about the reasons behind focusing on disability studies instead of looking for the roots of this problem and define the normalcy notion itself. In Davis opinion, he thinks distinctly understanding the construction of normalcy will guide us to discussing the disabled body.
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