interdisciplinary humanities disability studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disability_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_studies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q627208 An academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct.