HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Resistance Theory In The Early Modern Period, Social Forces, Allan Holdsworth
3 Oct 2020
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Argues that the cause of disability is not an individual"s pathology, but rather the social structures that disable people with certain impairments. Impairments may be physical, mental or sensory. Structures include societal attitudes, built environment, policy. Disabled people"s international definition of disability: the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to physical and social barriers. Social model has provided platform for social/political activism. Focus on recognizing and removing barriers that disempower people with impairments. Has become dominant frame for understanding disability by activists. Impairments interact with social factors to produce disability, but are still crucial to a person being made disabled. Most disabilityemerges from chronic illness, and illness, unlike [social identities], emerges slowly over timesomeone who is able-bodied is only temporarily so. (p. Experiences of disability are linked to embodied feelings of pain or discomfort.
