Interrupting the Medical Ableism Feedback Loop

by Joseph Stramondo, PhD The COVID-19 pandemic reveals systemic health inequities in ways that are hard to ignore.  These inequities tracked race, class, and several other overlapping and interlocking oppressions, including ableism. Ableism roughly refers to an ideology that disrespects and unjustly disadvantages disabled people on account of their disability.  Ableism can appear in the attitudes and beliefs of individual people or it can be “baked in” to a system of institutions and practices.   Systemic ableism was most apparent early on in the pandemic, in the way crisis standards of care were initially drafted that deprioritized disabled people for critical treatment based on problematic notions of quality of life.…
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