Article ID: CBB001421189

Impaired Encoding: Calculating, Ordering, and the “Disability Percentages” Classification System (2014)

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Admon-Rick, Gaby (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 39, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 105-129


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special section: “STS and Disability”
Language: English

Work injury compensation and pensions are often determined according to medical disability rating scales attributing a percentage to each impaired body part or function. Incorporated into central medical--administrative networks of committees and examinations, these produce disability as a calculable space. This article examines the specific case of the Israeli National Insurance regulations regarding work injuries of 1956 and analyzes the shifted order they set. Looking at this system in the specific historical context of transition from the British Mandate workmen's compensation system to the disability percentages system, provides insight into the process of structuring and stabilizing durable numerical forms and the production of centralized government. Drawing on conceptualizations regarding the sociotechnical role of classification systems, I contend that through encoding and calculating classifications of disability, heterogeneity is eliminated and an ordering based on physiology is black boxed, illustrating the importance of technoscientific formations in structuring the medical model of disability.

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Article Blume, Stuart; Galis, Vasilis; Pineda, Andrés Valderrama (2014) Introduction: STS and Disability. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 98-104). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Frank Mondelli
Meiske, Martin
Bate, Jason
Boas, Hagai
Heine, Eike-Christian
Concepts
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Technology and society
Science and technology, relationships
Health care
Work environment
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Israel
England
London (England)
Spain
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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