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While the medical model is still embedded in practice today and continues to characterize disability as a pathology that requires correction, there is a growing number of physicians, many in physical ...
The line between difference, disability, and disease is constantly shifting, shaped as much by social attitudes as biology. A ...
Other models of disability have emerged alongside the social and medical model including the human rights model, which emphasises the equal rights of people with disability and acknowledges there ...
Endorsing a social model of disability, rather than a solely medical model, is associated with lower ableism. Promoting a social model orientation is a promising strategy for reducing ableism.
Critics identify limitations in both the medical and social models. 2,6,12 They argue that disability is both a social and an embodied phenomenon.
Recently, there has been a prominent call in the history of medicine for greater engagement with disability perspectives. In this article, I suggest that critiques of the so-called medical model have ...
It is highly concerning to note, for example, that Autistic people with a learning disability are forty times more likely to die prematurely than neurotypicals.
This research highlights the crucial role of an intimate link between a disabled person's self-identity and the perceived fairness of legal procedures. In doing so, it brings to the foreground a ...