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• W3121750346 abstract "Abstract: Tort litigation operates with a distorted perspective of disability. It suffers from blindsight; it does not see people with disabilities the way they see themselves. Disability advocates emphasize that most people with disabilities lead happy lives. Deeply rooted biases, however, make it difficult for this perspective to be recognized. Tort litigation's heavy emphasis on medical testimony and its repeated portrayal of plaintiffs as less than whole over-emphasize the physical aspects of disability and unfairly depict people with disabilities as tragic. When legal actors embrace these views, they reinforce harmful stereotypes outside the courthouse doors. Newly disabled plaintiffs are also likely to internalize this distorted perspective, as they are repeatedly exposed to it in the course of the litigation. This Article recommends several ways that tort litigation can present plaintiffs with disabilities in more empowering ways, while still recognizing the severity of the injuries involved, and without sacrificing the recovery of hedonic damages or otherwise reducing the plaintiffs' awards. INTRODUCTION 710 I. TORT LITIGATION'S DISTORTED VIEW OF DISABILITY 716 A. The Pathologizing Role of Medical Experts 722 B. How Tort Litigation Suggests that Plaintiffs with Disabilities Are Less than Whole 727 II. WHAT HAPPENS IN COURTS DOES NOT STAY IN COURTS: TORT LITIGATION'S INFLUENCE ON PERCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY 731 A. Tort Litigation's Blindsight Shapes Public Perceptions....... 732 B. Tort Litigation Encourages Plaintiffs to View Themselves in Harmful Ways 734 III. HOW TO APPROACH DISABILITIES DIFFERENTLY (WITHOUT SACRIFICING PLAINTIFFS' RECOVERIES) ..... 737 A. Making Room for People with Disabilities to Become More Active Participants in the Litigation 738 B. Changing the Way We Talk 742 C. What About the Money? 746 CONCLUSION 752 INTRODUCTION Was not experience necessary to see? - Dr. Oliver Sacks' In 1993, Dr. Oliver Sacks introduced The New Yorker readers to a condition called Hindsight.2 Blindsight is a kind of perceptual blindness.3 People with blindsight have the ability to see but are not conscious of it.4 Essentially, they are blinded by the limitations of their cognitive experience. As the great Irish playwright Brian Friel has taught us, however, blindsight can also be understood as a cultural condition.5 In Molly Sweeney, a play Friel wrote after reading Sacks' article,6 Friel portrays society as suffering from blindsight in its interactions with people with disabilities.7 While people without disabilities can physically see the lives of people with disabilities, Friel suggests, their biases make them blind to how individuals actually experience disability.8 In this Article, I argue that tort litigation suffers from a similar condition. I do so mindful of the limitations of using medical terminology to critique biases about disability.9 Disability rights activists have long sought to have disability understood in social, rather than medical terms.10 In light of this history, my use of medical terminology to diagnose and treat tort litigation's perspective on disability may seem ironic and potentially regressive. I also recognize that there are problems with using a disability metaphor, particularly one linked to blindness.11 Disability metaphors can be offensive because they usually rely on negative stereotypes for their rhetorical power. …" @default.
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• W3121750346 title "Blindsight: How We See Disabilities in Tort Litigation" @default.
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