CMAJ| JANUARY 7, 2019| VOLUME 191| ISSUE 1 E17 nuanced view of disease, which
included recognition of psychosocial issues along with physiochemistry. 4 Engel's …

Drawing on her own experiences with the mental health system, Margaret Price interrogates
the language used to describe mental disability, including the terms psychiatric disability …

Sociologists appear to have abandoned the study of serious mental illness. This paper
argues that the work of the disability theorists provides new directions for an analysis of the …

Disability is commonly viewed as a problem that exists in a person's body and requires
medical treatment. The social model of disability, by contrast, distinguishes between …

This paper provides a critical review of contrasting ways of thinking about the nature of
disability in society. It highlights the dominance of the medical model of disability whereby …

This paper critically reviews medical approaches to the identification and treatment of
disability. The medical model locates disability within individuals. By contrast, this paper …

This report explores current assumptions about the social and scientific formulations and
treatments of disability that currently underlie the research agenda in the disability field …

This chapter examines the origins of the social model. It addresses the various debates that
have emerged since the late 1990s and argue that, without the social model of disability …

" This edition... adds an important international perspective on illness and disability. The
personal narratives help bring the real world of people who are suffering to the forefront of …

The aims of this paper are to analyze the role of medical and health professions in creating
and establishing the disability category. We also explore how the diagnosis, measurement …