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In the reading Disability by Nancy Mairs, author talks about the american society and her life struggle with multiple sclerosis. Mairs starts her essay, by describing herself as a crippled woman, and her reaction about the media and people with disability. She speaks about her conditions and states how she never noticed a cripple woman like her in the media. Not even for advertisement of products. Mair writes that “I once asked a local advertiser why he didn’t include disabled people in his spots.…
During this era, disabled people were known as anyone who essentially did not look like an ideal normal white person. The author describes the terms of these laws as, “those labeled insane, idiotic, feebleminded, epileptic, and otherwise “defective” (Welke, 79). The author continues on to describe how labeled disabled people were to be institutionalized, and treated without the right to citizenship and…
Activity 2 War and patriotism seem to play a significant role in the United States laws and culture. It was insightful to learn as explained by Boris (nd) that “Following World War I, many soldiers who had been injured in Europe returned home. These war-related disabilities let to the passage of the Vocational Rehabilitation act of 1920” (p. 4). Throughout history, prior to this legislation, there is an implied callousness exhibited toward individuals with disabilities. However patriotic individuals who, prior to war, functioned without any disabilities return to their loved ones.…
To analyze the development and the legislative history of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is important to discover the definition of disability as enacted by the United States Congress. “When Senators Weicker and Larkin first introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; Public Law No. 101–336 [1990]) in 1988, only 30 percent of people with disabilities in the United States were employed. Title I, the section of the ADA pertaining to employment discrimination, sought to address this persistent no employment among people with disabilities. The law served to extend antidiscrimination provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Public Law No. 93–112 [1973]) to the private sector and to clarify congressional intent…
Many of us have encountered someone with a disability or are not fully able-bodied ourselves. One of my high school friends has cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound. Even though it is regulated that schools must be handicap accessible, I saw the struggles my friend went through because our society is structure based on the perfectly able-bodied. Due to his condition, my friend was not allowed to take tests at the same time as the rest of the students. He was excluded, and this further ostracized him based on his condition.…
In this paper, I will be explaining the argument of Elizabeth Barnes on her mere-difference of disability and whether it implies certain moral claims. Social constructivism describes that a person is considered disabled because of a contingently deep, intersubjective reality that shapes a person’s social world. Barnes argues that disability is intersubjective because whether a person is regarded to have a physical illness is not socially constructed, but rather a matter of biological fact. A person is determined to have a disability simply based on social construction. An example of a social construction is currency printed on paper.…
Throughout history the treatment of people with a disability has been uncalled for. During 1800’s, people saw the disabled as evil and “not normal”. They were treated like they weren’t even human. According to American Bar Association “Persons with disabilities were seen as objects of charity or welfare or as needing to be subjected to medical treatment or cure.” All they want is to be treated like a normal person, but they can’t if everyone sees them like a monster.…
In Douglas Baynton’s “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” Baynton argues that the idea of disability was used in American history to justify discrimination. People with perfect health from the past viewed disability as a form of disease because of their “dysfunctional body”. Women, African Americans, and immigrants were viewed as disabled because they are “abnormal”; they don’t have the ideal body built and mind to be defined as “normal”. “Normal”, as Baynton would described, means “the average, the usual and the ordinary” (Baynton 36); a person is perfectly functional. Women were forbidden to learn and be educated; African Americans were discriminated because of their skin color.…
Though the treatment of people with disabilities was far form ideal during the early American period, it declined even further during the “progressive” era. The community aspect of caring for each other seems to have been completely lost, and attempts to find a place for individuals incapable of performing traditional labor diminished. Rapid industrialization continued to cause more and more disabilities, and the quality of life of those affected by them became even worse than before. Disabilities during this time were viewed as undesirable defects, and those who had them were ostracized and looked down upon. This era gave birth to the notion of eugenics, which claimed that a “perfect” society could hypothetically be achieved trough breeding out undesirable traits that did not align with their notion of the ideal citizen.…
Although both John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum are considered respected philosophers, their approaches to the theory of social justice differ immensely. In this paper, I will demonstrate the flaws and strong points of their approaches to social justice and determine which is more persuasive. More specifically, I will analyze Rawls’s social contract type approach to Nussbaum’s proposed “Capabilities Approach” and directly apply them to the issue of people with disabilities. Lastly, I intend to present a personal opinion on these two theories of social justice based on my ethical framework.…
Physical and mental impairments are key concerns in regard to many facets of society and policy making today. Various aspects of everyday life of people with disabilities are influenced by models of disability in particular the medical and the social discourse of incapacity. This essay will focus on analysing the two models as well as explaining the ideology behind both of them. In addition, it will provide illustrative examples for each approach. Furthermore, this essay will elaborate on the issue of diagnosing and labelling incapacitated people and the effects this has on the general public as well as policies, explicitly within the educational sector.…
Overtime, we have seen a dramatic shift in the way our society addresses individuals with these types of impairments. Previously, people with disabilities were viewed as being inadequate or incapable or achieving certain statuses (Adams, etl. 2013, pg. 297). They were often disregarded and slighted by other…
Throughout many years of history, those with disabilities were not always treated fairly or given equal opportunity. Activists around the world have worked together to achieve goals such as increased access to all types of transportation and a safer day to day environment. Equal opportunities in employment and education have been a big part of their efforts too. For many years, children with disabilities were many times segregated and not given an equal opportunity for a chance to learn and succeed in school. A disability should not limit a person’s choice to improve themselves and their intellectual capabilities.…
The medical model of disability is a model which identifies the impairment of a disabled person as the problem, of which, the aim is to fix or cure this impairment by means of medical professionals whereas the social model of disability is a model which identifies that society creates barriers in the environment that do not allow disabled people from participating fully and equally to those who are able bodied and looking at ways that can remove these barriers for disabled people. This essay will thus further discuss the medical model of disability in contrast with the social model of disability and i will illustrate this by using materials such as case studies and academic references that relate to the medical model and social model of disability.…
This model has been discussed and re-discussed by disabled people and they have come to the conclusion that it is the way that society is organised that causes the most problems for them rather than their disability. In its extreme form, the British social model denies the existence of impairment in the individuals concerned, and it has been criticised for failing to encompass the personal experience of pain and limitation that is often a part of impairment. “In addition, it should not be forgotten that some impairments are invisible but may have functional impacts and implications for personal identity and psychological well-being”, (Shakespeare and Watson, 2001). Often this model looks at ways of improving society by removing barriers and also removing the stigma attached to someone with a disability or impairment. When barriers are removed this gives disabled people the independence that they are entitled to as a citizen, due to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014.…