HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Disability Rights Movement, Medical Model, Disability Studies
2 Nov 2016
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Disability and the experience of understanding disability is a human right"s issue. There is no one-way to experience disability prior to the (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:882)"s, disability has been understood through. This model through modern medicine of the (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s. There was the development of this into the society. Since disability has many medical origins, people with disabilities were supposed to benefit from the. This model is sometimes called the expert model of disability the medical model of disability medical care. Under this model, that it is very individualized and that hearing about disability will cause other social issues to disappear. Medical model sees person as passive or inactive in their care; this traditional view can persist in some ways but there are different levels to change this view. The medical model is not about doctors and how they are bad! It is about the way society learns about disability through medicine. Limitation of the medical model: disabled people are defined by their diagnosis.
