The Disability Movement's Critique of Rehabilitation's Medical Model: A Rebuttal.

Although my essay was eventually accepted and published, I was perplexed by these comments. Having spent more than 30 years on the faculty of a medical school’s department of rehabilitation medicine and now holding the rank of full professor, I felt I knew something about rehabilitation, and I was certainly aware of the “disability as a social construction” trope. My objection to the reviewer’s comments was that rehabilitation medicine must, by its very nature, apply its therapeutic know-how to cognitive, behavioral, and affective symptoms of disability onset; otherwise, it wouldn’t be rehabilitation medicine.