The Cantos of Ezra Pound: A Critical Study.

No body is expendable: Medical rationing and disability justice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“…Disabled bioethicist Joseph Stramondo (2016) wrote “the lived experience of disability produces variations in moral psychology that are at the heart of the moral conflict between the disability movement and mainstream bioethics” (p. 22). He described the conflict between mainstream bioethics and the disability rights movement fundamentally as the insider/outsider distinction identified by the social and rehabilitation psychologist, Tamara Dembo (1964; see also, Dunn, 2015). There is a discrepancy between self-reports of quality of life by individuals with disabilities and estimates from health care providers known as the disability paradox (e.g., Ubel, Loewenstein, Schwarz, & Smith, 2005).…”

“…Health inequities and inappropriate decisions about care can be the outcomes of these misestimates (Amundson, 2005; Kothari, 2004). As Dembo (1964) put it, “The role of the outsider is that of an observer, and the role of the insider is that of a participant . .…”

Only connect: The social psychology of disability.

“…Wright (1917Wright ( -2018, identified two related attributional strategies that clarify the nature and often the reason for observers' conclusions regarding disability. Building on Lewin' s personenvironment relation, Dembo (1964Dembo ( , 1970Dembo ( , 1982 created a distinction between insiders, those who have a disability and truly know what that experi ence is like, and outsiders, those who are compelled to imagine what the experience of disability must be like (most outsiders are nondisabled, but Dembo' s analysis also means that one PWD is effectively an outsider to the disability experience of another PWD). Conceptually related to the actorobserver effect, the insideroutsider distinction is important because it explains why outsiders presume that either congenital or acquired disabilities are negative or disruptive to daily life and must be defining for those affected.…”

“…Unless prompted to do so, outsiders are unlikely to view disability as one quality among the many in a given person' s life and instead are prone to think of disability as an ongoing and troublesome preoccupation. Dembo (1964) pointed out that although outsiders project their presumptions onto PWDs, insiders are intimate with the experience of disability and know its presence does not necessarily predict quality of life or affect their wellbeing. Disability is one life quality that takes its place alongside many others, including physical and mental health, stress, career, recreational interests, and role as friend, spouse, parent, or volunteer (see Duggan & Dijkers, 2001).…”