Competing Models of Disability: Medicalization’s Ambivalent Effects on the Paralympic Movement

Disability is predominantly understood as a medical problem. Since the 1980s, disability scholars have critiqued the medicalization of disability to illuminate disability’s social and political dimensions. Building on this tradition, the present article analyzes the Paralympic movement to call socio...

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Main Author: Evan T. Baughman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2025-07-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351705
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