SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Community Building

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1AA3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Conceptualized disability as being fundamentally physiological or anatomical. Objectivity: standardized tools structure: experts and patients certainty: Disability objectivity: states, uniform . pathological (natural cause, knowable, diagnosis. Diagnosis: access to service, medical issue medicalized . Emphasis on the person: accommodations at mcmaster, students responsibility . onus on the student, limited structural change. Diagnosis- advantages: standardized care, specialize and experts . Challenges: limited discussion about environments, stigma, passive recipient. "expert" and "patients: expert is knowing all, patient is objectified, does not take into account individuals assessment . the course of action, individuals primary identity.