Abstract The leading models of disability struggle to fully encompass all aspects of “disability.” This difficulty arises, the author argues, because the models fundamentally misunderstand the nature of disability. Current theoretical approaches to disability can be understood as “nounal,” in that they understand disability as a thing that is caused or embodied. In contrast, this paper presents an adverbial perspective on disability, which shows that disability is experienced as a personally irremediable impediment to daily-living tasks or goals-like-ours. The picture theory of disability technically constitutes a species of relational approach because its analysis references the interplay between an individual and their environment; it differs from other relational accounts, however, by interpreting disability as a certain kind of negative experience—rather than a function of that relationship. This purely descriptive theory makes no normative claims about disability and operates as both a mechanism for the evaluation of the experience of disability and a heuristic device for the proper interpretation of disability. When disability is reframed in this way, the theory offers a particularist perspective which shows if, when, where, and how disability is experienced.

Steven J Firth

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

剑桥医疗伦理季刊旨在应对生物学、医学和医疗保健方面的挑战，并满足在医院、疗养院、临终关怀中心和康复中心的医疗伦理委员会任职的专业人员的需求。该杂志的目的是作为国际论坛，解决医疗伦理委员会成员、医生、护士、社会工作者、神职人员、律师和社区代表所面临的广泛的严重和紧迫问题。

The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics aims to address challenges in the fields of biology, medicine, and healthcare, catering to the needs of professionals serving on ethics committees in hospitals, nursing homes, hospice centers, and rehabilitation facilities. The journal serves as an international forum to discuss a wide range of serious and urgent issues faced by members of ethics committees, physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy, lawyers, and community representatives.

剑桥医疗伦理季刊旨在应对生物学、医学和医疗保健领域的挑战，满足在医院、疗养院、临终关怀中心和康复中心的医疗伦理委员会专业人员的需求。该杂志的目标是作为一个国际论坛，探讨医疗伦理委员会成员、医生、护士、社会工作者、神职人员、律师和社区代表所面临的各种重要和紧迫的问题。

Category	Quartile
医学	4
医学, 卫生保健与服务	4
医学, 卫生政策与服务	4
医学, 社会科学生物医学	4

The Picture Theory of Disability

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SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL	3