Social Capital as a Resource in Securing Accommodations
Price doesn't directly discuss this but another resource individuals often have to use to obtain the biocertification required to get accommodations is social capital is dealing with medical professionals. It is common for disabled individuals to experience medical professionals who are wary of signing paperwork around accommodations out of a belief that accommodations might hem-in or negatively define the capacities of their patient. This experience is felt more keenly by both femme presenting and AFAB patients along with Black, Indigenous, and other patients of color because of histories of medical misogyny and racism that lead to the symptoms of these individuals being downplayed and no believed. Because of this often patients have to leverage social capital - through taking time to prove to their doctor they need medical paperwork signed or through bargainning and framing it as a favour - to obtain paperwork that allows them to get accommodations.
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Disability Studies
Culture as a Sociological Issue
Social Science
Empirical Science
Science
Sociology