Couser G Thomas
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA,
J Med Humanit. 2011 Mar;32(1):21-30. doi: 10.1007/s10912-010-9125-1.
Disability studies can be of great value to medical education first, by placing the medical paradigm in the broad context of a sequence of ways of understanding and responding to disability that have emerged in the last two thousand years or so; second, by reminding medical professionals that people with disabilities have suffered as well as profited from medical treatment in the last two hundred years; finally, by providing access to a distinctive point of view from which the experience of disability looks very different than it may from the outside.
残疾研究对医学教育具有重大价值，首先，它将医学范式置于过去两千多年左右出现的一系列理解和应对残疾方式的广阔背景中；其次，它提醒医学专业人员，在过去两百年里，残疾人在接受医疗治疗时既有痛苦也有收获；最后，它提供了一种独特的视角，从这个视角看，残疾经历与从外部观察时可能大不相同。
