Papers by Michael Leverett Dorn
HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2017
The increased recognition and reported prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) combined wit... more The increased recognition and reported prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) combined with the associated societal and clinical impact call for a broad grassroots community-based dialogue on treatment related ethical and social issues. In these Stony Brook Guidelines, which were developed during a full year of community dialogue (2010-2011) with affected individuals, families, and professionals in the field, we identify and discuss topics of paramount concern to the ASD constituency: treatment goals and happiness, distributive justice, managing the desperate hopes for a cure, sibling responsibilities, intimacy and sex, diagnostic ethics, and research ethics. The members of the dialogue core committee included doctors, ethicists, administrators, social workers, ministers, disability experts, and many family members of individuals with autism who were especially engaged in community activities on behalf of their constituency, including siblings, parents, and grandparents. Our ...
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2001
Introduction to Disability and Geography II
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2004
Welcome to the second Geography Symposium section of Disability Studies Quarterly's Summer 2... more Welcome to the second Geography Symposium section of Disability Studies Quarterly's Summer 2004 issue. We once again acknowledge David Pfeiffer for his kindness in affording us the opportunity to bring a variety of geographical perspectives to readers of this journal, and thank the new editors Beth Haller and Corinne Kirchner for providing the support and assistance to see this issue through to completion. We thank all of the authors and reviewers who generously spent much time and effort to help us produce this issue, ...
Doubting Dualisms
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
According to the standard interpretation, there were two dominant subgroups of medical geography ... more According to the standard interpretation, there were two dominant subgroups of medical geography in the mid-to-late twentieth century (Mayer 1982; Paul 1985). The first subgroup–disease geographers (or ecologists)–typically traced their lineage back to the work of Jacques May in Southeast Asia during World War II and his subsequent employment by the American Geographical Society (AGS) to produce the first world atlas of disease (May 1950; Mayer & Meade 1994). The second subgroup–the “access to health care” researchers (or ...
(In)temperate Zones: Daniel Drake's Medico-moral Geographies of Urban Life in the Trans-Appalachian American West
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2000
The dawn of the nineteenth century saw the Democrat Thomas Jefferson assume the presidency and re... more The dawn of the nineteenth century saw the Democrat Thomas Jefferson assume the presidency and reside in a new national capital placed along the Potomac River in a malarial wetland. The yellow fever threat still hung over coastal ports, and concern over the variety of endemic cultural and climatic insults to the body politic remained high. Addressing the Philadelphia Medical Society in, Charles Caldwell attributed the great frequency and force of bilious diseases to a diathesis (or predisposition) in the national body.“ ...
Journal of Historical Geography, 2001
For historians of science and medicine, the late twentieth century may well come to be viewed as ... more For historians of science and medicine, the late twentieth century may well come to be viewed as the age of AIDS. If it can be said that there has been a positive result of the AIDS epidemic, it might be that it has forced a renewed consideration of the relationship of disease and medical discourse to notions of citizenship, family, sexuality, race, gender, and morality. There have indeed been few recent cultural critiques of AIDS that have not highlighted the ways in which early epidemiological responses pathologized homosexuality and race, excluded women from the calculation of susceptibility, drove conservative politics towards a revivified discourse of family values and a celebration of heterosexuality, spurred debates over masculinity, and renewed age-old dichotomies between bad women (prostitutes, mothers with AIDS) and good women, morality and immorality, marginalized and mainstream, citizen and non-citizen. [1] The late twentieth century could also be described as the age of disability. Roger Cooter notes in his retrospective of the century that, at least in Western nation-states, "public consciousness of the rights and needs of physically and mentally handicapped persons was never greater." [2] Activists and academics in the emergent interdisciplinary field of disability studies have questioned the relationship between citizenship, medical discourse, and social location by disrupting the triumvirate of 'class, race and gender' with a fourth term, 'disability', in discussions of how rights are formulated and messages of inclusion or exclusion codified in the material environment. Like ethnicity or sexual orientation, disability serves to problematize understandings of identity categories as discrete and essentially unalterable. The term 'disability' encompasses impairments that are visible to the eye and permanent, as well as those that are relatively hidden and episodic. [3] As a result of this complexity, disability like ethnicity and 'race' has served as a critical optic for understanding the importance of visibility itself in the signifying processes of normalization. [4] These two issues-newly emerging infectious diseases such as AIDS, and the growing social recognition of disability-inspired us to collaborate for a special section of the Journal of Historical Geography on the role of medical discourse in shaping our standard definitions of race, gender, social location, and citizenship. As Canguilhem, Foucault, and others have recognized, medicine is a powerful constituent in the formation of perception and practice. [5] It achieves this in part through its scientific investigation into the human body and its functions, an authoritative endeavour that tells us more than we even know about ourselves. But the clinical gaze is not restricted to the body's interior, because claims of knowledge about the body extend into knowledge claims 313
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2002
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Apr 1, 1997
Katz discussed how changes jn urban built environments, particularly the privatization of urban p... more Katz discussed how changes jn urban built environments, particularly the privatization of urban public space, negatively affected New York City children. Privatization, she argued, not only serves a 'child hating' mentality prevalent in our society, but fosters, among other things, the sociospatial deskilling of children. We conducted an " "
Inescapable Decisions: The Imperatives of Health Reform. By David Mechanic. Transaction Publishers, 1994. 296 pp. Cloth, $34.95
Social Forces, 1995
Ephemera Journal (Ephemera Society of America), Jan 2021
Visual display of materials connected to the works and cultural influences of James Fenimore Coop... more Visual display of materials connected to the works and cultural influences of James Fenimore Cooper, accompanied by three pages of discussion, bibliography, and notes.
Michael Leverett Dorn is an administrative records clerk with HeiTech Services in Landover. Maryland. He holds a PhD in historical geography and the history of geographic thought from the University of Kentucky, and a library science master's degree from Long Island University. His work has appeared in the journal _Professional Geographer_ as well as the edited collection entitled _Geographies of the Book_ (Ashgate, 2010; Routledge, 2016).
German Migration to Missouri, 2019
Front Matter, Back Matter, Intro and selected chapters on Heinrich Börnstein. From the introducto... more Front Matter, Back Matter, Intro and selected chapters on Heinrich Börnstein. From the introductory paragraph to Michelle Jurkiewicz's chapter: "During the 1840s, a large influx of Germans migrated to the United States, with many of them settling in St. Louis, Missouri. Many felt unwelcome and under-appreciated by Americans, as their customs and lifestyle did not match the existing way of life. In spite of some controversies in his life, Heinrich Boernstein was a prominent figure in German-American rights in the mid-nineteenth century. For seventeen years, Boernstein remained in St. Louis, advocating for German rights as the publisher of Anzeiger des Westerns, or Western Reporter, a major German newspaper located in St. Louis. After living in America for seventeen years, he returned to Vienna, where he wrote a memoir of his experiences in the United States." The chapter by Michael Leverett Dorn focuses on two fateful years at mid-century, but especially the Summer of 1851 which saw Börnstein's effort to development of progressive political constituency for reform in the Great West.
Disclosure a Journal of Social Theory, 1997
Social Theory, Body Politics, and Medical Geography: Extending Kearns's Invitation
The Professional Geographer, 1994
obin Kearns (1993) recently invited medithey go about practicing their art. In particular, he adv... more obin Kearns (1993) recently invited medithey go about practicing their art. In particular, he advocated a reappraisal of the utility of the concept of “place” and a reconsideration of “aspects of social theory such as the structurdagency debate.” While we welcome the general thrust of his argument, we believe that the allusion to the structure/agency debate (never fully developed by Kearns) ignores the rich possibilities proposed by more recent advances in social theory which push the discussion of structure and agency beyond its ...
Brief Report: Stony Brook Guidelines on the Ethics of the Care of People with Autism and Their Families
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), with associated societal and clinica... more The increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), with associated societal and clinical impacts, calls for a broad community-based dialogue on treatment related ethical and social issues. The Stony Brook Guidelines, based on a community dialogue process with affected individuals, families and professionals, identify and discuss the following topics: treatment goals and happiness, distributive justice, managing the hopes for a cure, sibling responsibilities, intimacy and sex, diagnostic ethics, and research ethics. Our guidelines, based not on "top-down" imposition of professional expertise but rather on "bottom-up" grass roots attention to the voices of affected individuals and families speaking from experience, can inform clinical practice and are also meaningful for the wider social conversation emerging over the treatment of individuals with ASD.
Justice and the human genome project
Health & Place, 1995
This book is a collection of nine essays originally presented at a conference entitled {open_quot... more This book is a collection of nine essays originally presented at a conference entitled {open_quotes}Justice and the Human Genome{close_quotes} held in Chicago in late 1991. The goal of the articles in this collection is to explore questions of justice raised by developments in genomic research and by applications of genetic knowledge and technology. The Human Genome Project (HGP) is used as a starting point for exploring these questions, but, as Marc Lappe recognizes, the database generated by HGP research will have implications far beyond the medical applications frequently used to justify this research effort. Thus, the book`s contributors consider questions of justice in relation to screening and testing for various predispositions, conditions, and diseases and gene therapy but also examine testing for other characteristics, forensic uses of genetic information, issues associated with DNA banks, and (hypothetical) genetic enhancement possibilities.
Health & Place, 2008
A recent symposium on the geographies of disability at the 2007 Association of American Geographe... more A recent symposium on the geographies of disability at the 2007 Association of American Geographers meeting attracted papers and panel contributions from 46 researchers. In this commentary, we draw on the content of the symposium to discuss recent developments in disability geography scholarship. We focus on three broad themes that ran through many of the contributions. These are: the evolving parameters of disability and chronic illness; the complex relationship between disabilities and technologies; and the struggle for citizenship. r
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ‘edu-tourism’ as a mode of alternative tourism that support... more Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ‘edu-tourism’ as a mode of alternative tourism that supports the project of globalism, advocating for a model of North-South relations based on partnership and interdependence. The authors have brought North American university students to Jamaica for summer study abroad courses for the past five years. Considering the ways that education qualifies and redefines ‘tourism’ so that it is more attuned to the values of globalism, we focus on three contrasting modes of mediation within edu-tourism. First, we examine spontaneous tourist experience, analyzed after the fact through dialogue and reflection. Second, we consider planned tourist encounters where cultural brokers help students make sense of their experience and how it clarifies Jamaican culture and the world order. Third, we describe service learning partnerships that work towards an ideal of interdependence. Critical incidents in the field, drawn from interviews and student journals, illustrate the learning process of edu-tourists and opportunities to go beyond static dualisms. We close by considering the implications of this work for Caribbean geographers and the practice of service learning.
Keywords: service learning; critical incidents; study abroad; thirdspace; globalism
Introduction to Symposium on Disability Geography: Commonalities in a World of Differences
We are pleased to have been given the opportunity by DSQ editor David Pfeiffer to present some of... more We are pleased to have been given the opportunity by DSQ editor David Pfeiffer to present some of the wide-ranging and fascinating work currently being undertaken by geographers and researchers in other related disciplines on disability topics. As a means of introducing disability studies scholars to the geographical perspective, we begin with some comparisons to the discipline of history.
Introduction to Disability and Geography II
Welcome to the second Geography Symposium section of Disability Studies Quarterly's Summer 2004 i... more Welcome to the second Geography Symposium section of Disability Studies Quarterly's Summer 2004 issue. We once again acknowledge David Pfeiffer for his kindness in affording us the opportunity to bring a variety of geographical perspectives to readers of this journal, and thank the new editors Beth Haller and Corinne Kirchner for providing the support and assistance to see this issue through to completion.
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Papers by Michael Leverett Dorn
Michael Leverett Dorn is an administrative records clerk with HeiTech Services in Landover. Maryland. He holds a PhD in historical geography and the history of geographic thought from the University of Kentucky, and a library science master's degree from Long Island University. His work has appeared in the journal _Professional Geographer_ as well as the edited collection entitled _Geographies of the Book_ (Ashgate, 2010; Routledge, 2016).
Keywords: service learning; critical incidents; study abroad; thirdspace; globalism
Michael Leverett Dorn is an administrative records clerk with HeiTech Services in Landover. Maryland. He holds a PhD in historical geography and the history of geographic thought from the University of Kentucky, and a library science master's degree from Long Island University. His work has appeared in the journal _Professional Geographer_ as well as the edited collection entitled _Geographies of the Book_ (Ashgate, 2010; Routledge, 2016).
Keywords: service learning; critical incidents; study abroad; thirdspace; globalism
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
THESIS ABSTRACT: As we approach the fin de siecle, images of disability are proliferating. Old modes of representation are now being contested, while new modes of representation are articulated to take their place. What criterion do we use when assessing the worth of the old and new images?
Chapter One sets out a new, explicitly geographical way of re-visioning disability - as spatial dissidence. This view draws together perspectives from disability theory, radical phenomenology and poststructuralist feminism to comment on geographical representations of disability. Stereotypical disability imagery is the product of body and landscape inscription as practiced in medicine, social planning and architecture. Yet these images are also freakish: practices of inscription always engender resistance from the lived bodies of dissidents.
Disabled people have historically been set aside from the public sphere in representative democracies as their social space has been shaped by the expansion of capitalism through a series of distinct growth ensembles. Re-visioning disability as spatial dissidence highlights its physicality. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate that embodiment is conspicuous by its absence in current theoretical debates over structure and agency. Chapter Three then addresses the need for a social theory that begins with the body in its dual aspect, as subjectively lived and objectively represented; the chasm between these two aspects of embodiment is bridged by dissidents. Chapter Four applies this refashioned social theory to expose the freakishness of geographical texts on disability. What arises is an understanding of how geographical discourse, like academic discourse more generally, is embedded in the broader trajectory of body history. Chapter Five becomes the linchpin of the thesis, where I set out a model for understanding the interaction between modes of dissident embodiment and transformations in the Western capitalist space-economy. This body history is also a historical geography of the present, suggesting for the concluding chapter points of tension and purposeful intervention for geographers exploring the broader geographies of dissidence.
attracted papers and panel contributions from 46 researchers. In this commentary, we draw on the content of the
symposium to discuss recent developments in disability geography scholarship. We focus on three broad themes that ran through many of the contributions. These are: the evolving parameters of disability and chronic illness; the complex
relationship between disabilities and technologies; and the struggle for citizenship.
Keywords: Disability; Chronic illness; Technology; Citizenship