culture and illness

Alec Ramsdell a_ramsdell at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 18 07:44:24 PST 1998


---Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> Alec Ramsdell writes:
> Marta, do you think the medical model of addiction, with all its
> trappings of the essentialized disease model, and with its possible
> subsuming of other conditions, is in step with the way disability as a
> category is kept flexible for the sake of economic and political
> interests, as you write about in your book?

Oh no, I wasn't saying Marta keeps it open. I can't remember the exact title, but it's the section in Beyond Ramps of the political category of disability. How disability is defined by law in determining benefits.

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