Ufkun Ötesi Bilim Dergisi
Yazarlar: Esma DURUGÖNÜL
Konular:-
Anahtar Kelimeler:Old Age,Disability,Disabled persons,Construction of Identity
Özet: The academic world until recently viewed disability as a medical issue or a specialized training area peripheral to consideration in the humanities. However, nowadays such a medicalized understanding of disability is being overturned and replaced with a social model of disability. This view defines "disability, " not as aphysical defect inherent in bodies but rather as a way of interpreting human differences. Within such a critical frame, disability becomes a social construction ratherthan a personal misfortune or a bodily flaw, and a subject appropriate for interdisciplinary inquiry instead of a specialized field within medicine, rehabilitation, or social work. The identity of disability is being investigated in the context of the oldaged