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The first Disabled doctor on TV? Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER
Debuting on the medical drama “ER” in its second season in 1995, Dr Kerry Weaver was one of the first representations of disabled doctors on primetime television. Having a limp in her gait and using a forearm crutch, the character was played by a non…
Another Doctor with a Cane: Dr. Gregory House on House M.D.
In 2004, a new medical drama aired on Fox called House M.D. in which the titular character Dr. Gregory House, a disabled doctor, walking with the help of a cane and addicted to painkillers was an unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who led a…
The Good and the Bad of The Good Doctor - Dr. Shaun Murphy on The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor, first aired in 2017 and created by David Shore who interestingly also produced House M.D. follows a surgeon Dr Shaun Murphy who has autism and savant syndrome as he juggles his duties as a doctor and his personal life. Though a great…
Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
The first novel to have a representation of a disabled medical student and doctor was the 1915 novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham where the protagonist has a clubfoot. Following his jounery where he fumbles (used intentionally) both…
Ronald "Ron" Lawrence Mace, FAIA
Profile and biography of Ronald "Ron" Lawrence Mace, FAIA.
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disabilityby Aimi Hamraie (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly…
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Designby Bess Williamson (NYU Press, 2019)
Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design…
What Can a Body Do?by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is…
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by David Gissen (University of Minnesota Press, January 2023 – forthcoming)
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, butThe Architecture of Disabilitycalls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation…
Sarah "Sally" Pillsbury Harkness
Profile and biography of Sarah "Sally" Pillsbury