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poor.” 210 As with the DPI, questions remain concerning the cultural specificities82that is normal (depending on age, sex, and social and cultural factors) forthat individual. 207At one level, the document has been affirmed for the usefulness of itsoverall framework in explaining how barriers (attitudinal, sensory, architecturaland economic) limit the integration of people with disabilities into society. 208However, criticisms of the model include that it conceptualises disability from amedicalised framework by describing disability in terms of deficiency andabnormality. 209 This leaves the individual being perceived as disabled and themedical profession with the responsibility of rehabilitation.Furthermore, disability activist David Pfeiffer claims links to the eugenicsmovement when he asserts that if the ICIDH can link quality of life toabnormality of impairment, “[i]t is only a short step to say that all persons who fitcertain D (disability) categories need not live because their quality of life is soand fluid construction of normality. Furthermore, the definitions continue to failto recognise those with an intellectual impairment.2.5.4 International Classification of Functioning, Disability andHealth (ICF)In 2001, the World Health Organization enacted a revision of the ICIDH,producing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health,namely ICIDH-2. This classification described disability from the perspective ofthe body, the individual and society. These perspectives bear reference to twodomains, namely ‘body functions and structures’ and ‘activities andparticipation’. 211 The following definitions are notable:207 World Health Organization. 3 International Classifications of Impairments, Disabilitiesand Handicaps (ICIDH) 1998 [cited 4/5/2008]. Available from,http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442455478 , sec.2, par.1.Bracketed words those of author.208 Pfeiffer, David. "The ICIDH And the Need for Its Revision." Disability & Society 13, no.4 (1998): 503-23, 507.209 ibid., 508.210 ibid., 510.Bracketed word that of author.211 World Health Organization. I.C.F. 2001 [cited 5/5/2007].http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/site/intros/ICF-Eng-Intro.pdf.Website no longer available.