Care practices and the disability issue: integration or inclusion?

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to discuss the distinct care practices development to deficient people, and how these practices bring out different subjective ways. These distinct care practices embrace assistance perspectives related to Church charity strategies, the disability pathological determination, integrating praxis, that aims the deficient person social adjustment, as well as inclusion praxis, that raises the disability issue as the right of being different. Michel Foucault’s methodology and theoretical reference have been used in order to demonstrate that, although these practices have emerged in a different social and historical milieus, they are present in our society, and invite us to think about the subjectivity and policy articulations focused in the disability area.