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. 2002 Jun;28(3):204. doi: 10.1136/jme.28.3.204

One principle and a fourth fallacy of disability studies

J Harris
PMCID: PMC1733595

Abstract

This brief paper shows that the idea of benefits to the subject compensating for the harms of disability is at best self defeating and at worst sinister. Equally benefits to third parties while real are dubious as compensating factors. This shows that disabilities are just that, a net loss and not a net gain.

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