tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post707489701280972178..comments2024-01-27T10:15:00.444+00:00Comments on The Attic: Research Seminar Review: Heather Hollins, Disability and the Holocaust (29th January 2007)The Attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15418156698058196228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-1585722917974798282007-02-05T10:47:00.000+00:002007-02-05T10:47:00.000+00:00I was really unhappy to have missed this seminar b...I was really unhappy to have missed this seminar because I am very interested in this topic - relevant to RCMG projects as well as to wider contemporary issues. It makes me feel really uncomfortable that although science and medicine are used for a lot of good in this world there is also this pursuit of 'perfection' and the eradication of anything which is deemed 'imperfect' or called an 'impairment' by our society. The social model of disability has done much to open my eyes to the fact that it is society that makes people disabled by ensuring their exclusion from the 'normal' not the 'impairment' itself. Exclusion which can be justified through portraying disabled people as charity cases or victims rather than individuals who are capable of living independent lives. Of course there are chronic illnesses and conditions where the reality is not so black and white, nor is there a simple solution to inclusion. But the debates must be had and we should not shy away from dealing with complex issues.<br /><br />Thanks Amy for the review of the seminar :)Cerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05607190124293660893noreply@blogger.com