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=== Mike Oliver === Following the UPIAS "social definition of disability", in 1983 the disabled academic [[Mike Oliver (disability advocate)|Mike Oliver]] coined the phrase ''social model of disability'' in reference to these ideological developments.<ref name="OliverSapey2006">{{cite book|author1=Michael Oliver|author2=Bob Sapey|title=Social work with disabled people|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqiUQgAACAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4039-1838-3|access-date=4 November 2016|archive-date=19 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719160032/https://books.google.com/books?id=qqiUQgAACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> Oliver focused on the idea of an individual model (of which the medical was a part) versus a social model, derived from the distinction originally made between impairment and disability by the UPIAS.<ref name="OliverSapey2006"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Oliver/in%20soc%20dis.pdf |first=Mike | last=Oliver |title=The individual and social models of disability |publisher=leeds.ac.uk |date=23 July 1990 |access-date=2012-11-10 |archive-date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118155527/https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/library/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Oliver's seminal 1990 book ''The Politics of Disablement''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oliver |first1=Michael |title=The Politics of Disablement |date=1990 |publisher=Macmillan Education |location=London |isbn=9780333432938}}</ref> is widely cited as a major moment in the adoption of this model. The book included just three pages about the social model of disability.<ref name=":0" />
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