Disability studies is a relatively new interdisciplinary academic field focusing on the roles of people with disabilities in history, literature, social policy, law, architecture, and other disciplines. Although it has many antecedents, and is partly an outgrowth of Marxist critical theory, disability studies began to flourish toward the end of the twentieth century. The first PhD program in disability studies in the United States was established in 1998 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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“The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)