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Disability & Ability in Science Fiction
Disability & Ability
By Crystal Mastrangelo, Casey Martin, Kaleigh Constantine, Ammar Siddiqui, William Hurwitz, Kelly Flanigan, and Max Martone
Cures & Treatment in Sci-Fi
"The Winter Market"
"Six Million Dollar Man"
Disability in Sci-Fi
What you may be familiar with...
Videos
Jake Sully in Avatar
From Sci-Fi To Reality
Timeline
- Modern technologies that bring science fiction treatments into the real world.
- Technologies have been predicted by science fiction literature.
Works Cited
What does it mean to be human? Who gets to be human?
More Modern Medicine
1948
3D Printed Prothetics
- Theoretical medical treatments being used in Sci-Fi; as technology progressed these became reality.
Grossman, Leigh. Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Holicong, Pa.: Wildside, 2011. Print.
"That Only a Mother"
Customizable, Affordable,
and accessible
"Latest "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" Promo Updates on The Lizard." Confessions of a Nerf Herder. 7 Jan. 2014. Web. 6 Dec. 2015.
1973
Exoskeleton
Rehabilitation Act
"The Sync Whole." : The Avatar Complex. Web. 6 Dec. 2015.
1967
1948
Restore ability
to the paralyzed
1978
http://enablingthefuture.org/upper-limb-prosthetics/
"Persistance of Vision"
https://www.rt.com/usa/169020-fda-approves-rewalk-robotic-suit/
1967
1977
1973
3D Printed Organs
1989
- Curing disability may suggest that you are less of a human and that there is an ideal image of human
"The Mountains of Mourning"
http://www.nature.com/news/the-printed-organs-coming-to-a-body-near-you-1.17320
"Driftglass"
1986
Donorless transplants
with no rejection
1977
1978
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Technology/woman-regains-vision-tooth-implanted-eye/story?id=8595589
"Jeffty is Five"
Bionic Eye
1986
"Driftglass"
"The Winter Market"
1990
Building new and
replacement bionic parts
Americans With Disabilities Act
- Environments can enable or disable
Star Wars
- Technology as a cure
Disability in Sci-Fi
- Disability is a social issue
- Alternative thinking on technological advancements - realistic or not
- Fear of disability
Curt Conners in The Amazing Spider-Man
"Mountains of Mourning"
"Fast Times at Fairmont High
"Jeffty is Five"
"That Only a Mother"
Inspiration
Disability
Curing
- "That Only a Mother"
- "Mountains of Mourning"
- "Jeffty is Five"
Our Topic
- "Driftglass"
- "The Winter Market"
- "6 Million Dollar Man"
- "Fast Times at Fairmont High"
Examining the duality between disability and the treatment of disability as the focus of science-fiction.