Abstract
This is a conceptual theoretical study to reflect upon disability and some basic concepts that are involved in its profiling. The scope of the article is to broaden the outlook upon disability removing it from a description that reduces it to an ailment. For this purpose, we situated the Disability Studies historically presenting the Medical and Social Models of Disability and problematized the concepts of autonomy and normality. These concepts and their correlated aspects - independence, functionality and the norm - are used as a tacit touchstone to differentiate some bodily variations that are identified as different lifestyles from others that are often called disabilities. We conclude by stating that disability can be analyzed based on other interpretations that do not construe it as a synonym for ailment if we consider the notions of interdependence, normativity and creation of the self in the world as basic concepts to describe it.
Highlights
Resumo Trata-se de um estudo teórico conceitual para pensar a deficiência e alguns conceitos -base que são manejados para a caracterização da mesma
Situamos historicamente os Disabilty Studies apresentando os Modelos Médico e Social da Deficiência e problematizamos os conceitos de autonomia e normalidade
No final dos anos sessenta, surgiram em diversos países ocidentais movimentos sociais que reivindicavam os direitos de grupos específicos, como mulheres e negros e, neste contexto, a politização das pessoas com deficiências ganhou força
Summary
Resumo Trata-se de um estudo teórico conceitual para pensar a deficiência e alguns conceitos -base que são manejados para a caracterização da mesma. Em 1980, a rejeição ao modelo médico e à ideia de que a deficiência precisa ser “corrigida” ganha força, assim como a defesa de que os “ajustamentos” não deveriam ser dos indivíduos deficientes, mas da sociedade, pois ela que era desajustada em relação a estes.
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