Disability Studies 1010A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Disability Studies, Counterpoint, Essentialism

• School: Western University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: Disability Studies 1010A/B
• Professor: Jeff Preston

Document Summary

Different authors and researchers have different points in regards to what is considered disability studies and what is not. The field of disability studies arose to counterpoint the medicalized perspective of disability. The construction of disability a problem interviews with it being viewed as a phenomenon, construction, and culture. The absence of agency of disabled people is evident in standard curricula, but the problem lies in the absence of perspectives of disabled people in the general culture. The objectification of pwd is made possible by empiricism while stereotypes are presented across discipline w/o critical analysis and with pathologizing and using diagnostic categories to label them. The field of disability studies incorporates disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon. The prevalence of information on disability in the curricula of applied fields isolates the study of disability to those specific fields that deal with restricted methodology"s.