Instruction: Answer these questions:
Deerinwater, Jen. 2020. The Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness. Disability Visibility 46-52 .
Eric-Udorie, June. 2020. “When You are Waiting to be Healed.” Disability Visibility 53-58.
Moore, Liz. 2020. “I’m Tired of Chasing a Cure.” Disability Visibility 76-81.
Study Questions:
Q1: What Does Jen Deerinwater’s experience of disability reveal or suggest about the medical model of disability?
Q2: What Does June Eriic-Udorie’s experience of disability reveal or suggest about the medical model of disability?
Q3: Describe Liz Moore’s criticism of “cure narratives” versus the social model of disability.
Boorse
Boorse, Christopher. 1977. Health as a Theoretical Concept. Philosophy of Science 44 (4): 54273.
Q1: How does Boorse think we should define “disability”?
Q2: If we adopted his definition as a definition of “disability,” would it really succeed in being value-free or value-neutral, as he claims.
Frank Frank, Gelya. 1988. Beyond Stigma: Visibility and Self-Empowerment of Persons with Congenital Limb Deficiencies. Journal of Social Issues 44 (1): 95115.
Q1: What does Goffman’s stigma theory hold, according to Frank?
Q2: What are some of the criticisms that other scholars have offered against Goffman’s theory?
Q3: What criticisms of Goffman’s theory does Frank offer? How do the stories of the subjects support those criticisms?
Q4: How are those criticisms connected to the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movements?
Fine and Asch Frank, Gelya. 1988. Beyond Stigma: Visibility and Self-Empowerment of Persons with Congenital Limb Deficiencies. Journal of Social Issues 44 (1): 95115.
Q1: How does the minority group model define disability, according to Fine and Asch?
Q2: What common assumptions has social-psychological literature make about disability, according to Fine and Asch, and what is wrong with or mistaken about those assumptions?
Q3: What is Wright’s conception of disability “spread”?
Q4: What role do these assumptions play in society, according to Fine and Asch?
Shakespeare and Watson Shakespeare, T, and N Watson. 1997. Defending the Social Model. Disability and Society 12 (2): 293300.
Q1: Explain the distinction between the British and American versions of the social model, according to Shakespeare and Watson.
Q2: What claims do the two models agree on?
Q3: Explain their criticisms of the psychological model as well as the model offered by medical sociology.
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