HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Range, Hearing Loss, Schizophrenia
29 Apr 2016
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Someone in a wheelchair with someone helping them: displays dependency, stereotype of wheelchair covering all disability. Symbols of accessibility: mark people, places or initiatives that display accessibility to people o. Someone in a wheelchair with their arms wide. Almost always negative: usually relating to medicine - creating the idea that you cannot separate chronic illness from medicine. Quotes about what it"s like to be chronically ill o. Shows that people who are chronically ill can feel like they do not belong and no one understand, are being stereotyped into be useless. Reflect impairment : hindrance or difficulty to do something: difference between impairment (physical/mental characteristic) and disability (social category resulting from disabling society) May be congenital, developmental, or acquired - can impact a person"s identity, would be very different to be born with a certain characteristic rather than acquiring it.
