ABSTRACT
The chapter argues that the medical model of disability is assumed in biomedical ethics and the social model of disability, as a result, presumed false. Amundson argues that this assumption unjustifiably makes normative inferences from empirical claims. Such inferences affect assessments of the quality of life of disabled people, which vary greatly between non-disabled people or proponents of the medical model on the one hand, and disabled people on the other. The chapter shows how the view of the medical model harms disabled people with respect to medical care and assessments of their quality of life.
