Medical model of disability

Abstract Termination due to medical condition or disability is illegal and as it violates the laws enforced by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the book Medical Law and Ethics, by Bonnie F. Fremgen she describes a case study, "The case of Janet K. and Epilepsy" on Chapter 8. "The Case of Janet K. and Epilepsy" describes the discrimination faced by employees. This case study will analyze the wrongful discharge of Janet, due to her epilepsy. It will further examine the legal action…

person above the person with disability or as if an able-bodied person is looking down to a person with disabilities, producers are sending a message that shows an able-bodied person as dominant, superior, more relevant to society, and/or show that able-bodied people have power over people with disabilities. Likewise, a camera perspective can be used to highlight or point out what producers want viewers to see. In “The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography,”…

was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and brought disability forward, as she studied cross-cultural conceptions of epilepsy in the 1930s. Jane and Lucien Hanks wrote a cross-cultural study that looked at social factors that influence the status of people with disabilities in variety of cultures: Native American, Asian, Pacific, and African populations; and Margaret Mead, who studied under Ruth Benedict, spoke about people with disabilities as members of the “normal” American population, and…

So far in EDP 611, we have discussed the term “disability” in great detail. The social and medical models are two different ways that disability is defined. After reading chapter three in the textbook, both terms make valid points, however, I feel I would side with the social construction of disability. The textbook states that over the years our view on disability has changed. For example, it was once considered normal to put people with disabilities into institutions, such as the Willowbrook…

linked to outsiders, especially in the medieval times, Bakhtin (2009) refers mostly about carnivals which was about tradition grotesque which involved becoming, changing, moving and essentially about two bodies becoming one. As well as, those with disability where used in carnivals as they were seen as fools as they embodied the idea of grotesque. The idea of the grotesque body is linked in MBY, in a beautiful scene when the two…

individuals attempt to strive to find legal options under the Disability Act which protects against discrimination on the basis of an actual functional mental or physical limitation; however, there are several unanswered questions whether obesity meets the requirements of a disability or not. This paper argues whether obesity can and cannot be seen as a…

Staff in the management of dysphagia in people with learning disabilities (Chadwick et al.,2013), and Effectiveness of training Support Staff (Tredinnic & Cocks, 2013). The reason for choosing this subject is due to the fact that Dysphagia is an important issue for some people with learning disabilities in particular those with cerebral palsy, and also there is a high prevelance of dysphagia in people with other severe physical disabilities (Sheppard (2006) , which has huge implications for…

complexities of Deaf identity and culture, as well as to consider how disability studies can offer a critical lens through which to analyse and challenge assumptions within the text. The field of disability studies has been greatly influenced by key figures such as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, the author of Staring: How We Look (2009), co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities…

For the purpose of this assignment, I chose the film The Young Offenders as my object of discussion and reflection. Life for people with disabilities has changed drastically over the last 30 years. Society has moved on from the medical model, which focussed on the impairment. Whereas, the social model, which arose in response to a critique of the medical model, and is situated in the wider, external environment. It is not explicable as a consequence of an individual’s physical and/or…

Once a month I volunteer at a program for adult with disabilities. The program is designed for the volunteers and the participants to get together once a month, either at a group activity or on their own. Activities are determined by the program’s staff and have included making flowers out of paper, a cooking class, trips to restaurants, and playing board games. Recently the program staff contacted me and suggested that the woman I am partnered up with, Ros, and I spend our time together doing…