GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brendan Gleeson, Centrality, Biomedical Model
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Impacted by categories of social difference, eg: gender, race, class,ability,age,sexuality, nationality dichotomy of norms societal norm able-bodied white. Men paid work(full employment) heterosexual healthy outside the societal norm disability. Biomedical model of disability biological norm of good health illness and disability are deviations form this biological norm. Reinforcement of disabled people as sick or weak the body is like a machine if one part of the machine is broken, doctors must x it objective: make the disabled body as normal as possible. Individualistic: disabled people owe it to themselves and society to x themselves social model of disability(1970s) Distinction between impairment and disability impairment forms of bodily difference usually described through a lack of defect eg: lack of limb physical, mental, sensory relates to the body. Disability: ways in which impairments are organized socially not an individual fault or body produced through certain historical, social and economic relations and barriers in uence or social context limits to the social model.
