KNES 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nothing About Us Without Us, Ableism, Paternalism
6 May 2020
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Impairment: physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological variations that may cause functional limitations. Disability: results from systemic barriers when a person with impairments is excluded from full participation in society. Medical model of disability: presents disability as a problem that mb cured, gives patient no voice, expert decides everything for them = dependent-expert binary , creates notion that it is the individual"s responsibility to improve themselves. Paternalism: disabled must rely on others for benevolence, approval and assistance. Alternative perspective: emerged with civil rights/womens rights movements in 1960s-1980s, 1990s: nothing about us without us. Ableism: systemic discrimination against people with visible/invisible disabilities, devaluing of particular human attributes, able-bodied privilege = reproducing norm that there is a normal human being. Adolphe quetelet: social physicist, tried to quantify human life through law of error, created quetelet index, which informed bmi. Sir francis galton: statistician, measured philosophy of the normal .
