Disability studies
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disability-studies-228-2813161
title:
Disability studies
text:
Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. This premise gave rise to two distinct models of disability: the social and medical models of disability. In 1999 the social model was universally accepted as the model preferred by th
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encyclopedia
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Academic discipline examining the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_studies
date created:
2005-02-18T05:30:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T07:33:48Z
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