The medical model focuses on individual intervention and treatment as the proper approach to disability. Emphasis is placed on the person with the disability rather than the systems and structures that inhibit the lives of disabled people. Under the medical model, disabled bodies are depicted as deviant, pathological, and defective, thus, best understood in medical terms. The history and future of disability are severely constricted, focusing solely on medical implications and ignoring very real social constructions contributing to the experience of disability. Alternatively, the social model presents disability less as an objective fact of the body and mind, and positions it in terms of social relations.