Revealing Rather Than Concealing Disability: The Rhetoric of Parkinson's Advocate Michael J. Fox

Rhetoric Review Oct 2012

Revealing Rather Than Concealing Disability: The Rhetoric of Parkinson's Advocate Michael J. Fox

Peter Wayne Moe University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

Given societal prescriptions to conceal disability, when Michael J. Fox, seeking increased funding for Parkinson's research, addressed members of Congress in 1999 without having taken his own Parkinson's medication beforehand, his display of disability was, in his own words, “startling.” Through revealing his disability, Fox constructs a complex ethos bound up in the intersection of the body, text, and social practices. As a result, through risking the reinscription of traditional and limiting responses to disability, Fox confounds such responses, demanding that both audiences and rhetoricians rethink the relationship between disability and rhetorical practice.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2012-10-01
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2012.711200
Open Access: Closed
Topics: disability studies

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