Altogether, the medical model emphasizes the ways in which people with disabilities are dependent and divided, rather than empowered and united.
These multiples, as they call themselves, see themselves as healthy and empowered rather than disordered and "inherently pathological," as Falah says.
My heroes are the writers, almost all of them younger than me, who are Asian American and empowered rather than limited by their lineage.
It is a sad reflection of capital punishment's immutable position in certain US state justice systems that a string of torturous and tortured executions have spurred debate about how the state can better kill people, rather than an empowered push to outlaw state murder.
Anthony Townsend Townsend unpicks the digital nervous system pulsing invisibly through our cities and urges us to view ourselves as its empowered collaborators rather than its victims.
Rather than find new, empowered ways to overcome our fears and obstacles, we wake up to what they are -- projections of the mind -- and carry on in the direction of our goals and dreams unimpeded.
We think that more empowered patients – or rather the patients empowering themselves – will not only have enormous benefits for the individual but it will also lead to more efficient and effective healthcare systems across the world.
Empowered people, empower people.
However, if in adulthood we continue to empower others to determine our sense of well-being, we will live as victims rather than as authentic, self-empowered creators and participants in our own lives.
Rather than attempt to eradicate the empowered modern women discourse, given that it was widely prevalent amongst young women, it might be possible to modify it by using some elements of the discourse to counter other elements.
