Editing Disability studies (section)

==Disability studies and medical humanities==
The [[social model of disability]] is expanded to chronic illness and to the broader work of the [[medical humanities]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Garden|first=R|title=Disability and narrative: new directions for medicine and the medical humanities|journal=Medical Humanities|date=December 2010|volume=36|issue=2|pages=70–74|pmid=21393285|doi=10.1136/jmh.2010.004143|doi-access=free}}</ref> Practitioners are working towards improving the healthcare for disabled people through disability studies. This multi-disciplinary field of inquiry draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities to address discrimination. [[Infinite Ability]] has done some preliminary work in [[India]] to introduce disability studies to medical students.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Singh|first=S|author2=Khosla, J |author3=Sridhar, S |title=Exploring medical humanities through theatre of the oppressed|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|date=July 2012|volume=54|issue=3|pages=296–297|pmid=23226869|doi=10.4103/0019-5545.102461|pmc=3512382|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Khetarpal|first=A|author2=Singh, S|title=Infertility: Why can't we classify this inability as disability?|journal=The Australasian Medical Journal|year=2012|volume=5|issue=6|pages=334–339|pmid=22848333|doi=10.4066/AMJ.2012.1290|pmc=3395292}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Singh|first=S|title=Broadening horizons: looking beyond disability|journal=Medical Education|date=May 2012|volume=46|issue=5|page=522|pmid=22515781|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04246.x|s2cid=33404803}}</ref> The medical humanities movement advocates use of literature in exploring illness, from practitioner and patient perspectives, with [[graphic medicine]] as an emerging strategy that combines comics-style medium and illness narrative.