title: Constructing prevention: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the problem of disability models.
abstract: Both the medical model and the social model of disability have substantial drawbacks for the project of creating better lives for people with disabilities; the first denies the value of difference and the effects of discrimination, and the second denies any place for prevention and cure. Using fictional and non-fictional parental narratives of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, this article argues that a third model--a morphological model of disability--can best help us think about respectfully and effectively intervening in disability.
authors.affiliation: Department of English, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6296, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. julie.vedder@mail.wvu.edu
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vedder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D063647:Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D012924:Social Conditions