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The 19 pages that link to Disability studies, each with the reason it gives.
DisabilityNarrower topic: The field brings together critical approaches that challenge purely medical explanations.
Social model of disabilityRelated: The model helped establish disability as a subject of structural and political inquiry.
Medical anthropologyRelated: It helps distinguish bodily impairment from barriers created by social arrangements.
Body horrorRelated: Its frameworks help distinguish bodily difference from the fear and stigma horror can attach to it.
Special educationNarrower topic: Its perspectives question how schools define ability, difference, and appropriate support.
AbleismNarrower topic: The field analyzes how ableism is represented, organized, and resisted.
Freak showNarrower topic: The field reinterprets freak-show history through power, representation, and disabled people's agency.
Disability historyNarrower topic: Disability history developed alongside this wider field of scholarship.
EmbodimentRelated: It shows how bodies meet environments shaped by access, norms, and exclusion.
Helen KellerRelated: The field questions accounts of Keller that reduce her life to overcoming impairment.
Kurt GoldsteinRelated: Goldstein’s cases challenge accounts that reduce a person to a deficit in one isolated function.
Medical sociologyRelated: It challenges medical-only accounts of disability and highlights barriers in society.
PosthumanismRelated: Its critiques of bodily norms illuminate posthumanism’s challenge to idealized models of the human.
Oliver SacksRelated: Its perspectives raise questions about how Sacks represented disability and patient agency.
Janet FrameNarrower topic: Frame’s story has prompted scrutiny of psychiatric labeling, institutional power, and the representation of disability.
Philosophical anthropologyRelated: It challenges accounts of human worth grounded in independence or standard abilities.
Georges CanguilhemRelated: His rejection of a single biological norm resonates with critiques of bodily standards.
Body integrity dysphoriaNarrower topic: It broadens debate beyond diagnosis to include social barriers, identity, and disability culture.
Jon Brower MinnochNarrower topic: His dependence on specialized care invites attention to bodily access and social support, not only diagnosis.