Medical and Social Models of Disability

In modern industrial society, disability is still widely regarded as a tragic individual failure, where "victim" needs attention, compassion, and medical diagnosis. Medicine helps to improve and improve the quality of life for many people, but that has brought about further isolation and separation of many people. This may be to insist on marking it as "evil", "abnormal" or "spiritual". Therefore, this labeling and diagnostic behavior is to force the social view that the disorder is an abnormality requiring treatment, and that the "victim" should do something necessary.

The social model of disability is a response to a medical model. The social model of disability identifies society, its systematic barriers, negative attitudes and exclusion (intentional or unintentional) are the main contributors to disability. This means that physical, sensory, intellectual or psychological changes may limit the function of an individual, but they do not necessarily lead to disability. Rather, society, regardless of individual differences, does not consider people, and does not include people.

Compared to the medical model, the social model of disability see disability as "social state" ("model of personal and social disability"), as Oliver states. In the social model, disability is not regarded as an internal problem, but without considering the disability or excluding it from the community, "social disability imposed on an individual with disability is a disadvantage or activity by a social organization "Beyond life" (Haegele and Hodge 197). Unlike authorities of institutions and experts in medical models, cognitive authority by social model is "disabled scholars and supporters" with the goal of "to reduce environmental barriers and deepen the understanding of society as a whole" There (Haegele and Hodge 194). ) As Oliver said,

1 - Understand the differences between medical and social disability models. 1 / 1.2 Many "models" of disabilities have been confirmed over the past few years. The two most frequently mentioned are the "social" and "medical" disability models. Medical model - disabled medical model treats disability as "disability" as "problem" or "victim". Sometimes they think it is a "personal tragedy". In addition to affected individuals, they think this is not a problem. To ban the beliefs of people's medical models, you need additional efforts to make yourself available, not to annoy others, but to annoy others. The medical model is a professional advantage with excellent qualification, experience and professionalism. This model further focuses on human needs, sensory function or mental function, and supports individual disorders using clinical methods.