The way many people view disability forces those living with it to work within the limitations of a world not designed for ...

That view is known as the medical model of disability, where someone's barrier to accessibility stems from a medical difference or impairment that needs to be "fixed".

The medical model of disability suggests that the most important aspect of life for a person with a disability is their medical treatment and how that person adjusts and adapts to that medical ...

Nope, I wholeheartedly embrace the Medical Model of Disability as well. I don't see why the two models can't be complementary. Granted, I don't think the Medical Model is always applicable to ...

As OAB is a symptom rather than a condition, the medical model of disability might consider a person to have a disability based on what is causing OAB.

Jarrod Marrinon says the source of negative attitudes about disability is people with disabilities themselves. He says it's time to leave the medical model of disability in the doctor's room and ...

So in a medical model of disability, as articulated in disability studies, the idea is just that disability is a kind of condition or an impairment or something that’s going on with your body ...

I don't believe wholeheartedly in the Social Model of Disability. Or rather, I don't think it's the only answer. There, I said it. I believe that for a lot of disabled folk, the only thing that ...