The medical model treats disability as individual pathology—something broken inside a person that experts should fix or manage—rather than recognizing that much disability emerges from the interaction between human variation and inaccessible environments. This framing justifies spending resources on cure while neglecting the reasonable accommodations and structural changes that would allow disabled people to participate fully in society.
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