Book contents
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice
- 8 Disabled Bodies and Good Organs
- 9 Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities
- 10 Chronic Pain As a Challenge for Disability Theory and Policy
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
Introduction to Part III
from Part III - Disability in the Clinical Setting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2020
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice
- 8 Disabled Bodies and Good Organs
- 9 Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities
- 10 Chronic Pain As a Challenge for Disability Theory and Policy
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
Summary
The relationship between individuals with disabilities and their medical providers can be especially fraught. One might assume that the medical system, because of its familiarity with people with atypical functioning, would have developed greater than average sensitivity to the concerns and needs of patients with disabilities. The chapters in this section, however, show that the reality is more complicated. The authors document a system that has not yet internalized disability as a “mere difference” and correspondingly reflects some of the most problematic aspects of disability as “bad difference.” Three of the chapters then consider how the application of a different framing of disability would improve the medical system by creating fairer policies, refining the clinician–patient relationship, and even changing the physical landscape of the clinic.
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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics , pp. 91 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020