Meanings
- not comparableuncommonNot yet disabled; prior to being disabled.
Frailty, a characteristic typically ascribed to a subset of older adults, has been described as “a predisabled' state.” […] A key distinction is that it is possible to be frail without specific diagnosed disabilities.
2019, James M. Shultz, PhD, MS, Lisa Sullivan, PhD, MA, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health, Springer Publishing Company, page 2712 more examples
The State apparatus needs, at its summit as at its base, predisabled people, preexisting amputees, the stillborn, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed. Thus there is a tempting three-part hypothesis: the war machine is […]
2004, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, EPZ Thousand Plateaus, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 470In a cure-driven future, Kafer explains, those with acquired disabilities often see themselves (and are seen by others) through a dual identity—the predisabled self and the postdisabled self. Like all binaric identity categories, the first half […]
2021, Jan Doolittle Wilson, Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 165
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