Disability Studies: Quotes Quiz

Q. Which disability theorist and advocate wrote, "We have been hidden—whether in the institutions that have confined us, the attics and basements that sheltered our family's shame, the 'special' schools and classrooms designed to solve the problems we are thought to represent […] The public has gotten so used to these screens that as we are now emerging, upping the ante of the demands for a truly inclusive society, we disrupt the social order"?

Q. Which theorist wrote, "The clinic […] owes its real importance to the fact that it is a reorganization in depth, not only of medical discourse, but of the very possibility of a discourse about disease"?

Q. Which disability studies scholar said, "To understand the disabled body, one must return to the concept of the norm, the normal body. So much of writing about disability has focused on the disabled person as the object of study […] I would like to focus not so much on the construction of disability as on the construction of normalcy"?

Q. Which theorist wrote, "For the moment, our society seems to have achieve a shaky but substantial consensus that it is morally acceptable to screen fetuses for profoundly debilitating conditions, such as Tay-Sachs disease […] but morally unacceptable to terminate a pregnancy solely with regard to gender"?

Q. Which disability studies scholar said, "The social model so strongly disowns individual and medical approaches, that it risks implying that impairment is not a problem. Whereas other socio-political accounts of disability have developed the important insight that people with impairments are disabled by society as well as by their bodies, the social model suggests that people are disabled by society not by their bodies"?