The Picture of Health

摘要

We carry our most intimate view of nature within our pictures of health. These images of health, often more amenable to ablenationalism than to a world of intra-active becoming, inform not only neoliberal policy, but ecological vision, including ecospir-itualities. Increasingly "the politics of health" constitutes something like a structure of exclusion, a "racism that is biological" (Foucault). Since these intimate images of nature-these "pictures of health"-may be aggravating the next great planetary divide, disability studies might differently shape what we make of the picture of health, the "nature" that informs it, and a religious response to it. This article uses critical disability studies to examine the ways in which the ideology of health, often motivating ecological concern and religious seeking, can coincidentally collude with neoliberal responsibilization and biotechnologically supported transhumanism, generating policy enclosures of the gen-rich against the "refuse/d" or "waste/d."