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The 21 pages that link to Medical model of disability, each with the reason it gives.

• AccessibilityCompared with: It contrasts with accessibility's focus on changing barriers in environments and systems.

• Disability rights movementCompared with: The movement challenges its tendency to make medical authority, rather than equal participation, the main concern.

• DisabilityCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that locate disabling effects in social organization.

• Social model of disabilityCompared with: Its individual focus contrasts with the social model’s emphasis on disabling barriers.

• NeurodiversityCompared with: It contrasts with approaches that emphasize social barriers and neurological variation.

• Autism spectrumCompared with: It contrasts with spectrum accounts that also emphasize context and barriers.

• Disability rightsCompared with: Disability rights challenge approaches that treat individual treatment as a substitute for removing social barriers.

• Disability studiesCompared with: It contrasts with social accounts by locating the main problem within an individual body.

• AbleismCompared with: Locating disability in individual impairment can obscure the social barriers that ableism creates.

• SideshowsCompared with: Sideshows often framed performers' bodies as medical curiosities rather than people with agency.

• Recovery modelCompared with: The recovery model resists reducing a person's life to illness or impairment.

• Susan SontagCompared with: Sontag challenged metaphorical blame around illness, not medicine’s clinical account of disease.

• Autism rights movementCompared with: The movement challenges using diagnosis and treatment as the sole frame for autism.

• DeafnessCompared with: It frames deafness as a condition to diagnose or treat, unlike social and cultural approaches.

• Physical disabilityCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that emphasize environmental barriers and social exclusion.

• Baba AmteCompared with: Amte’s community work addressed social participation and livelihood alongside medical care.

• Fedor JeftichewCompared with: This model centers Jeftichew’s condition, unlike analysis of the social meaning attached to his stage identity.

• Frank LentiniCompared with: It contrasts with interpretations that foreground the social setting of Lentini's career.

• General Tom ThumbCompared with: This framework contrasts with readings of Stratton’s career that emphasize social barriers and public treatment.

• Prince RandianCompared with: Its focus on bodily difference contrasts with accounts emphasizing Randian's skill and working life.