> Perhaps a person (with a disability) can just be themselves, without being
> categorised into either a social or medical model.
Of course they can, but as far as I am concerned the medical definition of
our bodies, minds and souls as sick, bad, ill and as misfurtune does not any
good for developing a personality, who ist proud, selfconfident and strong.
We are talking about pity, prejudice and stuff like that and we talk about
the presumed "bad luck" one does have, because he or she is disabled.
And after all the medical model of disability took an important role in
torturering and murdering over 100000 disabled persons between 1940 and 1945
and what we should not forget: The murderers were doctors who used the
medical model and the rehabilitation paradigm to select who stays alive and
who will be send to the gaschamber. That's part of our history here in
Austria, not to mention the brutal practice of sterilisation throughout the
Third Reich and again doctors were involved and it did not stop after 1945:
victims of sterilisation who claimed for compensation were confronted with
the same doctors, who declared, that they should be sterilised. There are
some important dangerous implication in the medical model, wich should be
remembered very well.
Regards
Wolfgang Mizelli
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