Editing Terry Fox (section)

===Views on Fox's disability===
[[File:Terry Fox Statue db.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Terry Fox statue in [[Ottawa]], Ontario|alt=Statue of a runner with an artificial leg partially hunched forward.]]

Fox refused to regard himself as disabled,<ref name="isbn0-7295-3673-4">{{cite book| last = McMurray | first = Anne| title = Community health and wellness: a socioecological approach| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-F6_n60TCFQC| date = June 15, 2003| publisher = Mosby| location = St. Louis| isbn = 978-0-7295-3673-8| page = 10 }}</ref> and would not allow anyone to pity him, telling a Toronto radio station that he found life more "rewarding and challenging" since he had lost his leg.<ref name="CFC-Aug1981" /> His feat helped redefine Canadian views of disability and the [[Inclusion (disability rights)|inclusion of disabled people]] in society.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.therecord.com/article/696082 |title=Terry Fox left a great legacy |newspaper=Kitchener Record |date=April 12, 2010 |accessdate=April 24, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="wheeler">{{cite book| last1 = Wheeler | first1 = Garry David | last2 = Steadward | first2 = Robert Daniel | last3 = Watkinson | first3 = Elizabeth Jane | title = Adapted Physical Activity| url = https://archive.org/details/adaptedphysicala00stea| url-access = registration | year = 2003| publisher = University of Alberta Press| location = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada| isbn = 978-0-88864-375-9| pages = [https://archive.org/details/adaptedphysicala00stea/page/36 36]–37}}</ref> Fox's actions increased the visibility of people with disabilities,<ref name="wheeler"/><ref name="isbn978-0-7487-3294-4">{{cite book| last = Brown | first = Roy| title = Quality of Life for People With Disabilities: Models, Research and Practice| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mxe0YmyTeQC| year = 1997| publisher = Nelson Thornes| location = Cheltenham, U.K| isbn = 978-0-7487-3294-4| page = 255 }}</ref> and influenced the attitudes of those with disabilities by showing disability portrayed in a positive light.<ref name="wheeler"/> [[Rick Hansen]] commented that the run challenged society to focus on ability rather than disability, writing, "What was perceived as a limitation became a great opportunity. People with disabilities started looking at things differently. They came away with huge pride".<ref name="s227">Scrivener, 2000, p. 227.</ref>

The narrative surrounding Fox has been critiqued as illustrating the media's focus on stereotyped portrayals of the heroic and extraordinary achievements of people with disabilities, rather than more mundane accomplishments.<ref name="Nelson"/><ref name="isbn0-275-97943-1">{{cite book| last1 = Smith | first1 = Linda C. | last2 = King | first2 = Gillian A. | last3 = Brown | first3 =  Elizabeth Mills| title = Resilience: learning from people with disabilities and the turning points in their lives| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JNrqSQqvbB8C| date = October 2003| publisher = Praeger| location = New York| isbn = 978-0-275-97943-0| page = 81 }}</ref><ref name="Shapiro2011">{{cite book|last=Shapiro | first = Joseph P. |title=No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLRpuFWiBB8C&pg=PA17|date=June 22, 2011|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-79832-9|pages=16–17}}</ref> Actor Alan Toy noted "Sure, it raised money for cancer research and sure it showed the human capacity for achievement. But a lot of disabled people are made to feel like failures if they haven't done something extraordinary. They may be bankers or factory workers&nbsp;– proof enough of their usefulness to society. Do we have to be 'supercrips' in order to be valid? And if we're not super, are we invalid?"<ref name="Nelson">{{cite book| last1 = Nelson | first1 = Jack A. |last2=Ross | first2 = Susan Dente | title = Images that injure: pictorial stereotypes in the media| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4m9iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22And+if+we%27re+not+super%2C+are+we+invalid%3F%22| year = 2003| publisher = Praeger| location = New York| isbn = 978-0-275-97846-4| chapter = The invisible cultural group: Images of disability }}</ref> The media's idealization of Fox has also been critiqued for emphasizing an individualistic approach to illness and disability, in which the body is a machine to be mastered, rather than the [[social model of disability]] where societal attitudes and barriers to inclusion play a prominent role in determining who is disabled.<ref name="isbn978-0-7619-4730-1">{{cite book| last = Seale | first = Clive| title = Media and health| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pWF_3ydQ4QUC| year = 2002| publisher = Sage| location = Thousand Oaks, Calif| isbn = 978-0-7619-4730-1| page = 112}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Harrison|first=Deborah|year=1985|title=The Terry Fox story and the popular media: a case study in ideology and illness|journal= Canadian Review of Sociology |volume=22|issue=4|pages=496–514|doi=10.1111/j.1755-618X.1985.tb00378.x}}</ref>