HLSC 4808U Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cochlear Implant, Medical Model, Social Constructionism
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Social model established in the 1970"s from disability activists. Beyond (models of) disability: disability is caused by social prejudice and oppression, not caused by impairments within the person. Medical model indicated that disability was a tragedy and they were in need of help (individualized body or mind: medical professionals made up definition and solution. Impairments defective limbs or defects in the body. Disability exclusion from which impaired people suffered. Social model suggests abandoning of the medical phenomenon and switching to a social phenomenon instead. Subjective experiences of disability are not acknowledged in this model. Clear dichotomy of impairment and disability and denying the relation to both. How the dichotomy criticisms merges into the neglecting/denying impairments . Social model underestimates the meaning of impairment. Neglecting/denying impairments criticism therefore neglecting or denying the phenomenon of impairment in the social model. Social constructionism reduces the multidimensional aspect of a disability: disabled humans are deemed half-humans since the model denies their biological component.
