... Opening with a discussion of the film Sim Ch’ŏng , which depicts filial piety as a uniquely Korean virtue enabling the cure of blindness, the chapter explores how the relational and interdependent aspects of disability compel family members to attempt to cure disability through spiritual...

... Section 1 mixes memoir and analysis, introducing a handful of fundamental concepts, including ways in which cure is connected to the ideas of normal and natural and how cure targets people deemed abnormal and unnatural. The pieces in this section also lay out a number of disability stereotypes...

... This section explores some of the ways in which cure is connected to violence. Because defectiveness justifies cure and makes it essential, this exploration starts with the word and concept defect and how its power relies on ableism. In turn, defectiveness is used to justify many forms...

... This section explores the personal complexities of cure—how, when, and why people want to be cured. The stories told here recognize many different relationships to cure and to normal and natural and delve into questions of how people respond to bodily loss. This section returns to ecosystem...

... This section focuses on the structures within which cure operates. First and foremost of these structures is the medical-industrial complex, which is described as an intricate jumble of economic interests and scientific frameworks, public and private institutions, governmental regulations...

... This section explores different ways in which cure functions, starting with how cure research prioritizes the future, often more interested in future-focused eradication than present-day access. These priorities are reflected in the missions and fund-raising strategies of many disability...

... This section chronicles some far-reaching results of the ideology of cure. It includes a retelling of the life of Carrie Buck, the poor white woman at the center of the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which ruled state-mandated, involuntary sterilization to be constitutional. This retelling...

... This section explores when and how disability is chosen, un-chosen, and claimed, outlining the ways the ideology of cure contributes to un-choosing and the ways in which claiming is connected to the concept and practice of interdependence. This concept is unpacked by using examples from...

... This section explores when and how disability is chosen, un-chosen, and claimed, outlining the ways the ideology of cure contributes to un-choosing and the ways in which claiming is connected to the concept and practice of interdependence. This concept is unpacked by using examples from...

... This section returns to the contradictions built into cure and its promise that medical technology can align people’s bodies with what they desire. The author explores these contradictions by expanding on his story of chest reconstruction surgery, laying his desire for a flat chest alongside...