It’s not black and white, and it shouldn’t be red or blue, either. When I first started my position at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in 1997, I was a faculty member in a newly formed ...

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...

Lisa I. Iezzoni ([email protected]) is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School based at the Health Policy Research Center–Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, ...

A purely medical model of disability is considered something of an anachronism in 2021. The medical model, which has its roots in the latter half of the 20th century, posits that disability should be ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Disability Pride Month is more than just another “awareness” campaign meant to enlighten non-disabled people. It’s also supposed to help actual disabled people change how they view themselves and ...