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The duties, responsibilities and rights of citizenship are defined within a framework of national and international law. They include such basic human rights as freedom of thought, belief and expression, freedom of association, free· dom from discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, the right to a fair trial and to the due processes of law. They also include rights to which citizens are entitled by virtue of the laws of particular countries, such as consumer and employment rights.
At the same time, the incomes 'experts' cannot completely ignore the disabled population, because this is necessary today to help establish their 'authority' in talks with the Government and in 'education' of the public. The ideal formal structure, then, for organising around the incomes content of DIG, is one that can establish a legitimate distance between the 'expert' leaders and the 'amateur' ordinary members. The answer is 'a federation of organisations' which, unlike DIG and the CCD, they claim, acts 'in an executive capacity' and reflects its wider representation in the subject matter of its pamphlets.
In short, for me, there is no such thing as the medical model of disability, there is instead, an individual model of disability of which medicalisation is one significant component. The articulation of this new view of disability did not receive universal acceptance. Originally, it was professionals, policy makers and staff from organisations for disabled people who, because they had vested interests in maintaining the status quo underpinned by the individual model, questioned the experiential validity and explanatory reliability of the social model.
