"It's all part of the societal construction of disability, it's seen in negative terms and is portrayed in negative, pitying advertising by organisations raising funds for research which wants to eliminate us from the planet.
This talk will examine the emerging legal category of the "disabled" American at the end of the nineteenth century in relation to the construction of disability in Civil War literature, broadly conceived.
It is in the social construction of disability that we move from the particularity of any one disability toward the common social experiences of people with disabilities.
While Picturing Disability does not present an overarching theme or thesis, highlighting social context unveils the changing rhetorical construction of disability images.
It is this concept of the genetic body-text and the implications of the resulting construction of disabody-text andthel error—that implicationsamine.
I would argue, in fact, that disability performance art is a genre of autobiography particularly appropriate to representing the social experience of disability precisely because it allows for creating both visual and narrative self-representations simultaneously and because it traffics in the two realms of representation fundamental to the social construction of disability identity.
If "baby boomers" who have not learned electronic communication become a despised, as opposed to merely statistical, minority, and if, as a result, they become cut off from friends and acquaintances who rely on email and social media for long-distance communication, and who dismiss them as luddites and fogeys, they will learn something about the social construction of disability.
Documenting the association between traumatic experience and disability has possible implications for the construction of disability services and provision of health services to individuals exposed to traumatic events.
It also has possible implications for the construction of disability services and for the provision of health services to individuals exposed to traumatic events.
Indeed, the current shift in health and disability research places increasing emphasis on the social construction of disability, and on the individual's subjective experience of his or her health condition.
