What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Over the last 6 decades, many published commentaries, from both within and outside the medical community, have criticized medicine’s characterization and management of mental illness and disability.

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 ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher examined the development of disability identity in Japan’s disability community. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three Japanese participants ...