"Group-specific policy focusing on special services and resources for disability category members logically follows from corporeal medical-diagnostic definitions of disability. In opposition, however, to what was perceived as a pejorative, the distal view of disability indicts social, cultural, and other environmental influences as disabling factors regardless of one’s body."
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Ira C. Colby et al., in: Connecting Social Welfare Policy to Fields of Practice , John Wiley & Sons, 27 December 2012, p. 123
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