The line between difference, disability, and disease is constantly shifting, shaped as much by social attitudes as biology. A trait that seems like a simple variation in one context can become a ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory ...

An estimated 15% of the world’s population experience some form of disability. Across Europe and Central Asia, persons with disabilities represent one of the largest segments of the population that ...

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