TY - JOUR AU - Reindal, Solveig Magnus PY - 2010/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Redefining disability: a rejoinder to a critique JF - Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics JA - Etikk Praksis - Nord J Appl Ethics VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.5324/eip.v4i1.1744 UR - https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/1744 SP - 125-135 AB - <p><em>Recently, scholars have argued that disability activists' redefinition of disability' as a social problem, rather than a medical problem, is maleficent, unjust, and inconsistent. It seems that the discussion on whether disability is a medical or a social category is not settled and that disability is an essentially contested concept. However, the question is: What is the social aspect in disability? It appears that there is some confusion as to what the social is in a social definition of disability. The article pursues possible reasons for this confusion by investigating the critique of the social model. This is followed by a discussion on what a possible space for the social might be in a social definition of disability. Such a space is illuminated by using the framework of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF). The article suggests that disability as a social category is not inconsistent if reframed within a social relational model of disability.</em></p> ER -