Physicians and scientists are often labeled as adherents of the medical model by Deaf individuals, who contrast it with their own cultural model.
42.
Social construction of disability would argue that the medical model of disability's view that a disability is an impairment, restriction, or limitation is wrong.
43.
The medical model has been the most popular stance on autism ever since the condition was identified by Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger in 1943.
44.
Its goal is to facilitate the networking and companionship among the Latino elders and implement a medical model of service which responds to the plan.
45.
But the medical model of mental illness has gained ground in recent years as scientists discover biological, chemical and even genetic explanations for mental disorders.
46.
Traditional deficit and disease models of child psychiatry have been criticized as rooted in the medical model which conceptualizes adjustment problems in terms of disease states.
47.
Kertbeny also put forward the view that homosexuality was inborn and unchangeable, an argument which would later be called the " medical model " of homosexuality.
48.
The cardiologist's phone call was a harbinger of a new medical model in which the mind and body are seen as parts of a single system.
49.
"From the ` whitefella'perspective, however, the emphasis is on a medical model of disease, which essentially is based on a technological outlook on life and its problems,"
50.
Some consumer / survivor movement organizations oppose use of the term " mental illness " on the grounds that it supports the dominance of a medical model.
