The medical model, with a human face

In this paper, I defend a version of the medical model disability, which defines disability as an enduring biological dysfunction that causes its bearer significant degree impairment. We should accept model, argue, because it succeeds in capturing our judgments about what conditions do and not qualify disabilities, offers compelling explanation for makes condition count justifies why federal government spend hundreds billions dollars, annually, on aid accommodations disabled people. After responding to pair objections Elizabeth Barnes has raised against contrast with Guy Kahane Julian Savulescu's welfarist account Barnes's own mere-difference view. Both these accounts face serious challenges, although elements view can—and, my opinion, should—be adopted by proponents model.