DIS STD 101W Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cystic Fibrosis, Down Syndrome, Medicalization
16 Jan 2019
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Withers highlights the the charity model is a marketing tactic created and upheld by charities and corporations that advertise disability as a defect that needs to be cured through the donations of abled bodied individuals. It reinforces the medical model because it portrays disability as an obstacle that disabled people need to overcome to reach their full potential. Syndrome, special olympics (and many others) funded by national charities and focuses on how disabled people and disability are marketed as supercrips, abled-disabled, or pitiful objects in need of a cure. He also delineates how the funds donated by corporations are centered in boosting their public image than directly supporting disabled people. For example, the schizophrenia society of canada puts. 22% of every dollar spent into human resources and administration and 14 % into fundraising, none of the money raised is used to directly support people with schizophrenia (withers, 60).
