(Feminist Constructions.) By Jackie Leach Scully. 203 pp. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. $60. ISBN 978-0-7425-5122-0.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the first wave of disability theoristsbegan to criticize medical professionals and bioethicists forusing a medical model of disability. They argued that thosewho subscribed to the medical model were wrong to assume that,as deviations from normal function, physical impairments areintrinsically bad. And they argued that those who used the medicalmodel literally did not know what they were talking about. Thisignorance was due not only to a failure of imagination but alsoto a failure to listen to people with disabilities. Why bother?It seemed self-evident that impairments necessarily entailed. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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