What Disability Studies Has to Offer Medical Education
Disability studies can be of great value to medical education first, by placing the medical paradigm in the broad context of a sequence of ways of understanding and responding to disability that have emerged in the last two thousand years or so; second, by reminding medical professionals that people...
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Published in | The Journal of medical humanities Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 21 - 30 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Boston
Springer US
01.03.2011
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Summary: | Disability studies can be of great value to medical education first, by placing the medical paradigm in the broad context of a sequence of ways of understanding and responding to disability that have emerged in the last two thousand years or so; second, by reminding medical professionals that people with disabilities have suffered as well as profited from medical treatment in the last two hundred years; finally, by providing access to a distinctive point of view from which the experience of disability looks very different than it may from the outside. |
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ISSN: | 1041-3545 1573-3645 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10912-010-9125-1 |