MAPPING DISABILITY: REFLECTION FROM MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES
Abstract
Disability appears as an enigma for common man because it has been defined diversely across human cultures. Some defines it terms of defects of human body while as others blame barriers of varied natured which makes one disabled. The main focus in this paper is to rethink disability which is based on deviance, sickness, medical, and charity approaches and adopt new paradigms which hold that disability is socially and culturally constructed phenomenon. The theories, perspectives and models are helpful in creating a new intellectual format and structures through which disability can be expressed. Finally, the paper stresses that present academic milieu urgently needs new ‘intellectual space’ that would address the traditional classification of disability and help to understand new emerging identities in disability domain. Keywords: Disability, Medical Model, Social Model, Bio-Psycho-Social Model.
How to Cite
Showkat Hussain Itoo. (1). MAPPING DISABILITY: REFLECTION FROM MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES. ACCENT JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS ECOLOGY & ENGINEERING ISSN: 2456-1037 IF:8.20, ELJIF: 6.194(10/2018), Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journal, UGC APPROVED NO. 48767, 2(8). Retrieved from http://www.ajeee.co.in/index.php/ajeee/article/view/1822
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