What Disability Studies Has to Offer Medical Education

• Published in: The Journal of medical humanities Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 21 - 30
• Main Author: Couser, G. Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...