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One principle and three fallacies of disability studies
Abstract
A question between John Harris and I is the degree to which lessons may be learned, and insights gained, from a life distinguished by physical differences. He argues it as the “aborting Beethoven fallacy”, I insist on the evidence that what we learn from physical differences may be critical and life enhancing.
- Disability
- impairment
- handicap
- equality
- social conception of disability
- harmed condition conception of disability
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