Michael Oliver’s scientific contributions

... The social model of disability, initially developed between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s, represented a seismic shift in how disability was conceptualized in the West; it posits that the oppression of disabled people is a result of the exclusions of social structures rather than the limits or failures of one's own body. By naming disablism and turning the focus away from individuals towards the social creation of disability, the social model created space for theorizing disability anew beyond individualistic and medicalized norms (which remain dominant in social work theory and practice) (Oliver 1990(Oliver , 1996. The principles of the social model are echoed in North American disability rights movements, especially in deinstitutionalization and independent living movements which gained traction in the mid-late 1980s in the USA and Canada (Fritsch 2019). ...

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Mobilizing feminist disability studies for expansive social work scholarship