Chemical and electromagnetic exposures as disability barriers: environmental sensitivity

This paper proposes that chemical and electromagnetic exposures pose technology‐related disability barriers for people who have acquired sensitivities to them and that these barriers should be integrated into our understanding of disability. I discuss pervasive chemical and electrical exposures as products of industrialism that first engender impairments and then act as disability barriers to those who develop intolerance to them. I also remark on unique aspects of environmental sensitivities in the context of the social model.