#399: How attitudes disable: Rethinking our assumptions about people with impairments

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Jul 27, 2017Education

Social epidemiologist Prof. Eric Emerson argues that "disability" and "being disabled" really refer to the effects of social and economic marginalisation of people with certain types of physical or mental impairments, an...

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