Disabilities
Scope Note
Incidence of serious physical disabilities (e.g., blindness, deaf-mutism, crippling infirmities and deformities); interpretation of abnormalities and disabilities; care and treatment of disabled (e.g., neglect, persecution, euthanasia, home care, charity, institutionalization); organization, operation, and financial support of special institutions for disabled; adjustments to disabilities (e.g., seeing-eye dogs, prosthetic devices, hearing aids); sterilization of disabled, etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Handicapped" to "Disabilities" in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 730 Social Problems
- Related Terms
- 158 Personality Disorders
- 201 Gestures And Signs
- 429 Administration
- 481 Locomotion
- 729 War Veterans
- 734 Invalidism
- 735 Poverty
- 737 Old Age Dependency
- 750 Sickness
- 758 Medical Care
- 826 Ethnoanatomy
- 847 Abortion And Infanticide
- 888 Status And Treatment Of The Aged
- Use Fors
- Ableism
- Artificial limbs
- Attitudes toward the disabled
- Attitudes toward the handicapped
- Birth defects (disabilities)
- Blindness (as a disability)
- Braille (as a form of coping with disability)
- Breasts (prosthetic)
- Cleft palate (disability)
- Clubfoot (disability)
- Cretinism (disability)
- Crutches (use by disabled)
- Deafness
- Defects (birth)
- Deformities (bodily)
- Dentures (use)
- Disabled (attitudes toward)
- Disabled (institutions for care)
- Disabled (prevalence)
- Disabled (treatment)
- Dogs (seeing-eye)
- Dwarfism (disability)
- Euthanasia (disabled)
- False teeth (use)
- Handicapped (disabled)
- Handicapped (treatment)
- Handicapped care
- Harelip (disability)
- Hearing aids
- Hunchbacks (disability)
- Limbs (artificial)
- Mental retardation (incidence)
- Pacemakers (heart)
- Physical abnormalities (disabilities)
- Prostheses
- Prosthetic devices
- Prosthetic limbs
- Seeing-eye dogs
- Teeth (false)
- Treatment of the disabled
- Treatment of the handicapped
- Walking therapy (for the disabled)
- Identifier
- 732
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