Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions

A historical look at how activists influenced the adoption of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical views of disability.

Disability activism has fundamentally changed American society for the better—and along with it, the views and practices of many clinical professionals. After 1945, disability self-advocates and family advocates pushed for the inclusion of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical perspectives on disability in clinical research, training, and practice. In Disabil...