Health - Disability

Question 1

What is disability

Answer 1

Physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Question 2

Biomedical approach

Answer 2

regards disability as a form of abnormality. those with impairments are seen as needing treatment and rehabilitation to help ‘normalise’ them.

Question 3

Social model approach

Answer 3

Disability is socially constructed.

Question 4

Which theorist can we use to help argue social model approach on disability

Answer 4

Shakespeare argues disability is created by the attitudes of societies that do not consider the needs of those who do not meet with that society’s ideas of what is normal. not the state of people’s bodies.