Yes, I think it's easy to read criticisms of "the medical model" as criticisms of medicine (as an idea in principle, rather than pointing out flaws in the way it's done in practice), which would be absurd because medicine is obviously hugely important to helping deal with many chronic illnesses.
I'm still getting my head around the social model, especially as it applies to me, I think part of the problem with all these models is trying to describe all disabilities at once means not accurately capturing any one individual's experience and needs. Disability varies from being incurably Deaf where medicine offers nothing and the right social context means you might not want to be "cured", to chronic pain which goes away with a pill, plus there's the physical/mental divide etc.
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Yes, I think it's easy to read criticisms of "the medical model" as criticisms of medicine (as an idea in principle, rather than pointing out flaws in the way it's done in practice), which would be absurd because medicine is obviously hugely important to helping deal with many chronic illnesses.
I'm still getting my head around the social model, especially as it applies to me, I think part of the problem with all these models is trying to describe all disabilities at once means not accurately capturing any one individual's experience and needs. Disability varies from being incurably Deaf where medicine offers nothing and the right social context means you might not want to be "cured", to chronic pain which goes away with a pill, plus there's the physical/mental divide etc.