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Distracted by Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

ADRIENNE ASCH
Affiliation:
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Abstract

People with disabilities use more medical care and see health professionals more often than do those of the same age, ethnic group, or economic class who do not have impairments. An indisputable medical goal is “preventing, ameliorating, or curing disease and its associated effects of suffering and disability, and thereby restoring, or preventing the loss of, normal function or of life.”

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: DIFFERENCE AND THE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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