Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

What is addiction? It is enduringly difficult to say. Our methods of treating addiction have become, over time, both more compassionate and more effective. Yet the nature of addiction itself remains ...

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...

Overactive bladder (OAB) can be a disability if it is a long-term condition that substantially affects a person’s ability to carry out daily tasks or participate in activities, such as working or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. A purely medical model of disability is considered something ...

Lisa I. Iezzoni ([email protected]) is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School based at the Health Policy Research Center–Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. Disability rights in modern Britain were hard-won and ...

What is addiction? It is enduringly difficult to say. Our methods of treating addiction have become, over time, both more compassionate and more effective. Yet the nature of addiction itself remains ...