The Importance of Disability Research
Why is disability research important? When asked this question I tend to respond by revising it in my head (if not out loud). Why is disability research so important? Why is any research important? I might go on in this vein but my point is that disability research has the potential to improve under...
- Autores:
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Bolt, David
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/65301
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/65301
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/66324/
- Palabra clave:
- 61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health
Investigación
Discapacidad
Disability
Research.
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Why is disability research important? When asked this question I tend to respond by revising it in my head (if not out loud). Why is disability research so important? Why is any research important? I might go on in this vein but my point is that disability research has the potential to improve understandings of the most fundamental aspect of the human condition —namely, the diversity of minds and bodies. Whatever our history, geography, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or religion, we have, have had, and/or will have a profoundly intimate relationship with disability. It is, after all, via the very diversity of minds and bodies that we are ultimately unified. |
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