Learn with Dr. Dog- Series Three: Models of Disability

Lesson One: The Medical Model of Disability

Lesson Two: The Social Model of Disability

Lesson Three: The Human Rights Model of Disability

Some suggested further reading:

Albert B, (2004) Briefing Note: The social model of disability, human rights and development, Disability KaR Research Project

Areheart BA, (2008) When Disability isn’t ‘Just Right’: The entrenchment of the medical model of disability and the Goldilocks dilemma, Indiana Law Journal 83, p.181

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2018) General Comment No.6 on equality and non discrimination, United Nations

Degener T. (2017) A New Human Rights Model of Disability. In: Della Fina V., Cera R., Palmisano G. (eds) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43790-3_2

Degener T. (2016)”Disability in a Human Rights Context” Laws 5, no. 3: 35

Degener T (2014) A human rights model of disability, Researchgate

Hogan, A.J. (2019). Moving Away from the “Medical Model”: The Development and Revision of the World Health Organization’s Classification of Disability. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93(2), 241-269

Morris, J (2009) Impairment and Disability: Constructing an Ethics of Care that Promotes Human Rights, Hypatia_16 (4): 1-16

Oliver M, (2013) The social model of disability: thirty years on, Disability & Society 28:7, pp. 1024-1026

Shakespeare T,  (2010) The Social Model of Disability, in The Disabilities Studies Reader,  Davis LJ (Ed), Routledge, New York, pp.266-273

United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities 

You can also find links to disability law and ethics resources on our Disability Resources Page.

There are also helpful resources to help ensure disabled children’s human rights are met in day to day clinical practice below Dr Karen Horridge’s #AdsTalk21 on our Adam Bojelian Memorial Talks pages. Dr Horridge’s talk, which you will find on the same page, is well worth a watch for anyone interested in the rights of disabled people in healthcare.

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