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(This page will redirect to the new location in 15 seconds, unless you select a link option) CLICK ON LINK: Disability Unplugged: Disability has gone through a revolution over this last century. This is true of the medical treatments and the understanding of how physical and functional (mental / psychological) disabilities arise. Medical treatments also give rise to disabilities. This is sometimes as the unavoidable result life saving procedures, under emergency circumstance (amputation). Sometimes this because of accidental events during clinical treatments and procedures. There are risks in all activities of life, including being conceived, bourn, born and growing up. It is true of activities which are undertaken with the very best of intentions, for the purpose of going about our daily business and for the thrill of a challenging activity. Our knowledge of risk, genetic influences and the development of technology, have all contributed to a gradual improvement in reducing the incidents of some, and some of the effects of many disabilities. Ironically, knowledge, opportunity and technology have also contributed to an increase in some forms of disability, as life expectancies increase and as physical, emotional and social pressures upon us increase. There has also been some improved understanding (amongst some quarters) of the adaptation that people can show after 'disabling' effect, due to genetic, birth effects and injury. There have, of course, been substantial increases in sympathetic responses, due to mass media coverage of child misfortunes and injuries of war in particular, which have increased awareness of the mechanics of disability. What is mostly missing, however, is the more fundamental social-psychology of 'disability'. The 'sympathetic' responses are good to promote publicity but these same sympathies can be very insidiously dependency creating and disempowering. Read More 
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