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Health Disparities in the Medical Record and Disability Determinations: Proceedings of a Workshop

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...
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Chronic Disease and Disability: Beyond the Acute Medical Model

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What are the social and medical models of disability, and how do they differ?

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
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Understanding disability through the Social Model of Disability

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...
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Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Jennifer Singh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...