SED SE 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorothea Dix, Disability Rights Movement, Deinstitutionalisation
16 Oct 2016
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Disability loss or reduced function of a body part or organ. A problem or disadvantage encountered by someone with an impairment when limitation in performing certain tasks caused by impairment interacting with the environment. Disability as the physical manifestation of sin. Disability as abnormal and needing to be remediated, removed, and/or prevented. Pwds are broken/sick and need to be fixed/cured. Disability as socially constructed; impairment as difference. Having a disability, in itself, is neutral. But both models are important and necessary the social model is often contrasted with the medical model focus on civil rights. Four stages of disability history: extermination, eugenics movement (part of the extermination stage; not it"s own stage!) idea that there are both good and bad people with disabilities idea that people with disabilities are responsible for social ills. People with more significant needs might be hidden away or given away.
