and criticise charitable organizations or medical initiatives that use it in their portrayal of disabled people, because it promotes a pitiable, essentially negative, largely disempowered image of people with disabilities rather than casting disability as a political, social and environmental problem (see also the political slogan "Piss On Pity"). See also Cure Medical model of autism Medicalization Models of deafness Neurodiversity References External links The Open University: Making your teaching inclusive: The Medical Model Disability Medical sociology Medical models Sociological theories Social theories