Models of Disability (outcome 1)
1. Outline the history and development of the medical, social and psycho-social models of disability
Medical:
The medical model defines a disability as something that is physically ‘wrong’ with a person’s body. This could be an illness or acquired damage to the body in an accident for example. The medical model views the human body as something which can be fixed or repaired if there is a problem with it.
The medical model of disability was started around the early 19th century, when physicians and doctors started to have a more prevalent influence on society. Modern medicine was beginning to make advances and priests were no longer seen as the only place people could go to for help.
In the 19th century it was very much believed that society was not expected to make a place for people with disabilities. They were outsiders and they were not expected to go to school, get jobs or support families. People with disabilities were seen as inferior to the rest of society. They were seen as lower class and the opinion that they should be segregated from ‘normal’ people was a very popular one.
In both the 18th and 19th centuries, body snatching was commonplace. So-called resurrectionists would steal bodies from graves and sell them to medical students, doctors and physicians with little regard to where they had come from. They were used in the study of anatomy. Up until this time dissection was seen as morally wrong
Body snatchers could be anyone from the medical students themselves, to murderers who would kill just to sell the bodies. People who just happened to stumble across an open grave would often steal the body and sell it on, and there were many professional body snatchers who would dig up graves just to steal the body inside.
The people who disapproved of this practice would often physically attack the people buying and selling the bodies. There were riots known as the Resurrection Riots. Bodies were not embalmed in the 18th and 19th centuries and so would
Medical:
The medical model defines a disability as something that is physically ‘wrong’ with a person’s body. This could be an illness or acquired damage to the body in an accident for example. The medical model views the human body as something which can be fixed or repaired if there is a problem with it.
The medical model of disability was started around the early 19th century, when physicians and doctors started to have a more prevalent influence on society. Modern medicine was beginning to make advances and priests were no longer seen as the only place people could go to for help.
In the 19th century it was very much believed that society was not expected to make a place for people with disabilities. They were outsiders and they were not expected to go to school, get jobs or support families. People with disabilities were seen as inferior to the rest of society. They were seen as lower class and the opinion that they should be segregated from ‘normal’ people was a very popular one.
In both the 18th and 19th centuries, body snatching was commonplace. So-called resurrectionists would steal bodies from graves and sell them to medical students, doctors and physicians with little regard to where they had come from. They were used in the study of anatomy. Up until this time dissection was seen as morally wrong
Body snatchers could be anyone from the medical students themselves, to murderers who would kill just to sell the bodies. People who just happened to stumble across an open grave would often steal the body and sell it on, and there were many professional body snatchers who would dig up graves just to steal the body inside.
The people who disapproved of this practice would often physically attack the people buying and selling the bodies. There were riots known as the Resurrection Riots. Bodies were not embalmed in the 18th and 19th centuries and so would