Fiona Harrison wrote:
>
>I am a woman with MS(diagnosed 1989 but like others developed symptoms well
>before diagnosis) , I took early retirement from a full-time pressurised job
>in July 1997 (at the time I was working part-time in a slightly different
>(i.e.demoted) capacity from that to which I had originally been appointed.
>
>I think the Social Model should be extended to include us and those with
>similar impairments. Certainly the disability movement should take this on
>board.
>
Though I agree that the experience of people with long term illness doesn't
quite fit (some versions of) the social model and that it is, for example
inconsistent to address issues of HIV/AIDS whilst ignoring MS and ME, it is
not true to say that these issues have not been explored within a social
model framework or, more appropriately within a social THEORY of
disability. All the issues that Joanna talks about are covered in the
writings of Jenny Morris, Susan Wendell, and more recently Carol Thomas,
and are often addressed in the journal Disability & Society. However, I
would particularly recommend the work of Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick
for examples of how the social model could be applied. Have a look at:
Margrit Shildrick & Janet Price (1996) Breaking the Boundaries of the
Broken Body. Body & Society, 2(4) pp.93-113
Janet Price & Margrit Shildrick (1998) Uncertain thought on the dis/abled
body, in. M. Shildrick & J. Price (eds) Vital Signs: Feminist
Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical body. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press
Best wishes
Mairian
Mairian Corker
Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies
Department of Education Studies
University of Central Lancashire
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