{"title":"Disability Studies in Medical Education","authors":"Joan W. Young","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2012040114","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This commentary discusses the paper by Khetrapal and Singh (2012). The author expands on the current reality of disheveled care, an organ-by-organ approach to “cure,†and a disregard for the emotional and social context of disability and shares her own experiences in trying to push victim-hood aside and take some control of the situation. The author lauds Khetrapal and Singh’s (2012) consideration of a program for disability studies in Medical Education.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2012040114","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This commentary discusses the paper by Khetrapal and Singh (2012). The author expands on the current reality of disheveled care, an organ-by-organ approach to “cure,†and a disregard for the emotional and social context of disability and shares her own experiences in trying to push victim-hood aside and take some control of the situation. The author lauds Khetrapal and Singh’s (2012) consideration of a program for disability studies in Medical Education.