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 inThe Journal of medical humanities Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 21 - 30
Main Author Couser, G. Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.03.2011
Subjects
Cultural and Media Studies
Curriculum
Disabled Persons
Education, Medical - methods
Eugenics
Humans
Literature
Models, Educational
Philosophy, Medical
Public Policy
Regional and Cultural Studies
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
United States
United States
Eugenics
Social model
Medical curricula
Disability studies
Norming
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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