Editing Social model of disability (section)

=== Disability rights movement ===
There is a hint from before the 1970s that the interaction between disability and society was beginning to be considered. British politician and disability rights campaigner [[Alf Morris]] wrote in 1969 (emphasis added):<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Alfred |last1=Morris |first2=Arthur |last2=Butler |title=No Feet to Drag - Report on the Disabled |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-283-97867-8 |location=London |pages=9–10 }}</ref>{{blockquote|When the title of my Bill was announced, I was frequently asked what kind of improvements for the chronically sick and disabled I had in mind. It always seemed best to begin with the problems of access. I explained that I wanted to remove the ''severe and gratuitous social handicaps inflicted on disabled people'', and often on their families and friends, not just by their exclusion from town and county halls, art galleries, libraries and many of the universities, but even from pubs, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and other places of entertainment ... I explained that I and my friends were concerned to stop society from treating disabled people as if they were a separate species.}}The history of the social model of disability begins with the history of the [[disability rights movement]]. Around 1970, various groups in [[North America]], including [[List of sociologists|sociologists]], disabled people, and disability-focused [[Political organisation|political groups]], began to pull away from the accepted medical lens of viewing disability. Instead, they began to discuss things like [[oppression]], [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]], and [[accessibility]]. This change in [[discourse]] resulted in conceptualizations of disability that was rooted in social constructs.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Oliver |first1=Mike |date=October 2013 |title=The social model of disability: thirty years on |journal=Disability & Society |volume=28 |issue=7 |pages=1024–1026 |doi=10.1080/09687599.2013.818773 |s2cid=145557887}}</ref>

In 1975, the UK organization [[Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation]] (UPIAS)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baldwinson |first=Tony |title=UPIAS - The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (1972-1990) : a public record from private files |date=2019 |publisher=TBR Imprint |isbn=978-1-913148-01-0 |oclc=1099943533 }}{{page needed|date=October 2020}}</ref> claimed: "In our view it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/UPIAS/fundamental%20principles.pdf |title=THE UNION OF THE PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED AGAINST SEGREGATION and THE DISABILITY ALLIANCE discuss Fundamental Principles of Disability |publisher=[[UPIAS]] |access-date=2010-10-23 |archive-date=23 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923050911/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/UPIAS/fundamental |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/finkelstein/UPIAS%20Principles%202.pdf |title=Fundamental Principles of Disability - Comments on the discussion held between the Union and the Disability Alliance on 22nd November, 1975 |publisher=[[UPIAS]] |access-date=2010-10-23 |archive-date=27 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927020649/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/finkelstein/UPIAS |url-status=live }}</ref> This became known as the social interpretation, or social definition, of disability.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Judy |title=No limits : the disabled people's movement : a radical history |publisher=TBR Imprint |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-913148-02-7 |location=Manchester |page=107 |oclc=1108503896 }}</ref>