Medical Model.
Title: Medical Model.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1414 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Medical Model.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1414 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
People with disabilities have been portrayed as abnormal, deserving of pity and not as individuals who are entitled to enjoy the same opportunities to live a full and satisfying life as other members of society. This approach has also been accompanied by a way of thinking about disability (known as the 'medical model' of disability, among other names) which has been described in the following terms:
"Disability tends to be couched within a medical and
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