HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Stratification, Visual Impairment, Body Plan
29 Apr 2016
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Lecture 8 - space and pace in disability & chronic. Like bodies, we have ideas about normal and natural spaces - we have an idea of normal body form, these normalcy ideas regarding space, who goes where and what is normal in the environment o. The pace of life, the pace of work - how fast something should be completed. Disability and chronic illness can be understood with particular reference to space o. Caused by particular spatial environments: unsafe sidewalks, asbestos contaminated buildings o. This reflects the dominant medical model view that it exist rather than being constructed. We have now moved more towards the view that the environment is disabling in the sense that the environment itself defines impairment o o. Relies on the social model, that it is something internal to the individual. Historically, ill and disabled individuals have been segregated, operating in very different (and limited) social spaces o.
