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The Doctors Are In: Disability Studies in Medical Settings

The field of disability studies once relied upon a strict division of “the social model of disability” from “the medical model” in its mission to make disabled people the authors of their own stories. The social model, locating disability in inaccessible environments and unaccepting attitudes rather than in the bodies of disabled people, was instrumental in establishing solidarity among people with different kinds of disabilities, and calling for civil rights for this large and heterogenous constituency. It revealed problems with relegating the study of disability to medicine alone, ranging from isolation, stigma, and the unnecessary pathologization of difference, to violent outcomes like wrongful confinements, mistreatment, dehumanization, and wrongful death. Though the articulation of the social model as an alternative to the medical model was foundational to the field, more recently disability studies scholars have been critiquing its shortcomings and proposing more integrative models, such as Alison Kafer’s “political/relational model” and Lennard Davis and David Morris’s “biocultures manifesto.” Ethical medical approaches to disability and chronic health conditions play a critical role in improving the lives and increasing the autonomy of those who seek care. In this “Doctors Are In” conversation, Marion Quirici, a humanist disability studies scholar, and Christopher Lunsford, a pediatric physiatrist, discussed the value of collaborating across disciplinary divides. By cultivating difficult conversations about systemic injustices in the history of medicine, and the ableism within medical culture itself, we can begin to imagine a new model of care founded on principles of democracy and justice. About the Doctors: Dr. Marion Quirici, PhD is Co-director of the Health Humanities Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program, and faculty advisor of Duke Disability Alliance. Dr. Christopher Lunsford, MD is a pediatric physiatrist (physical medicine and rehabilitation) with Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center in Durham, NC. He is also an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine.