 | Ruth Fincher, Jane Margaret Jacobs - Social Science - 1998 - 340 pages
...have insisted upon an important conceptual distinction between impairment, which refers to the absence of part of or all of a limb or having a defective limb, organism, or bodily mechanism, and disability, which is the socially imposed state of exclusion or... | |
 | Carol Robinson, Kirsten Stalker - Social Science - 1998 - 228 pages
...Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) (1976) defines impairment as 'lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body' and disability as 'the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused... | |
 | Mark Priestley - Community health services - 1999 - 266 pages
...1976, p.3) The definitions which they proposed read as follows: IMPAIRMENT: is defined as lacking part or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organ or mechanism of the body. DISABILITY: is the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation which takes little... | |
 | Robert John Flynn, Raymond A. Lemay - Social Science - 1999 - 586 pages
...situation, called 'disability,' of people with such impairment. Thus we define impairment as lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organ or mechanism of the body; and disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization... | |
 | Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury - Medical - 2001 - 868 pages
...that the definition includes the term being defined. Probably, the earlier definition — "lacking part of or all of a limb or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body" — also put forth by Oliver (1990) should also be included, although... | |
 | Rod Michalko - Social Science - 2002 - 210 pages
...put forth by the Union of Physically Impaired People Against Segregation (UPIAS). Impairment lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body; Disability the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by... | |
 | Linda Hamilton Krieger - Social Science - 2010 - 420 pages
...isolated and excluded from full participation in society. . . . Thus we define impairment as lacking part or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organ or mechanism of the body; and disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation... | |
 | J. Allan - Education - 2003 - 248 pages
...separates impairment from disability. Disability theorist Michael Oliver defines impairment as 'lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body.' I lack a fair amount of fine motor control. My hands shake. I can't... | |
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Thus we define impairment as lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organ or mechanism of the body; and disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation which takes no or little... 
