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Title: Disability and Society

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: In the medical model, disability becomes the person's sole, salient identity; the focus is on the inability to function and individual reliance on others for care. The alternative model is the social model, which views disability as a creation of society. One of the most popular kinds of sociological research on disability is content analyses of various media genres. Many disability-studies scholars and some sociologists claim that threats of euthanasia and eugenics are increasingly encroaching on the lives of those with disability. The most pressing issue that faces disability as a human rights issue is to ensure that people who consider themselves human rights activists understand how and in what way disability is a human rights issue, along with gender, sex, poverty, race, age, and other identity characteristics that are routinely denied privilege. Currently, disability is an afterthought in human rights conversations and considerations.

Url: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315634746/chapters/10.4324/9781315634746-12

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Authors: Lynch, Jean, M

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Volume Title: Expanding the Human in Human Rights Toward a Sociology of Human Rights

Publisher: Routledge

Publisher Location: New York

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Topics: Aging and Retirement, Health

Countries: United States