A Life Worth Living? Reimagining Life, Choice, and Disability with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D.

Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker

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How do we decide who has a life worth living? Author and professor emerita Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, joins Amy Julia Becker to discuss what it means to:

• be human
  
• live in community
  
• care for one another
  
• navigate the complicated ethics of selective abortion
  
• find the language and stories to talk about a life worth living

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ON THE PODCAST:
Plough essay: “The Body She Had” by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Book: About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities
Sara Hendren’s episode: “Who Belongs? Disability and the Built World”
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CONNECT with Dr. Garland-Thomson on her website: rosemariegarlandthomson.com
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Watch this conversation on YouTube by clicking here. Read the full transcript and access detailed show notes by clicking here or visiting amyjuliabecker.com/podcast.
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About:
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. She works in disability culture, bioethics, and health humanities. She is a Hastings Center Senior Advisor and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and author of Staring: How We Look and several other books.
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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Understanding Disability: Definitions and Perspectives (00:08:47)

3. Selective Abortion and Its Historical Context (00:13:21)

4. The Importance of Holding and Beholding (00:20:26)

5. Defining a Good Life: Flourishing in Human Variation (00:26:42)

6. The Literature of Welcome (00:33:04)

7. Embracing Uniqueness Through Stories (00:37:47)

8. Building a Welcoming World (00:43:30)

9. The Power of Narrative Knowledge (00:48:50)