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 ...

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 ...

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.

Although I applaud Dr. Andrew Hogan’s article in CMAJ1 for bringing the social model of disability to the attention of its extensive readership, as well as the need for more persons with disabilities ...

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 ...