HSS 3103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Southern Poverty Law Center, Taua, Gie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 3103
• Professor: Alessandra Iozzo

Document Summary

Understanding how the power of social construction is used to contribute to, reinforce, or resist social constructions of illness, disease, or disability is the key goal of this course. Models of disability their influence in nursing and potential role in challenging discrimination. Disabled people have frequent contact with health services, however much of this experience is viewed as discriminatory. Nurses have an obligation to promote disability equality in relation to the provision of health care. Adoption of the social model of disability in nursing practice, education and research as a strategy to challenge discrimination should be seriously considered. Disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)(cid:859) has t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)all(cid:455) (cid:271)ee(cid:374) viewed within nursing as a medical condition or illness which amounts to a deviation from biological or social norms and resulting in dependency. Art of medicine reduced disabilities to an individual deficit and the disabled people are passively treated, their choices are made for them.