Social histories of disability and deformity
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Social histories of disability and deformity
(Studies in the social history of medicine, 25)
Routledge, 2012
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.
Through a variety of case studies including: early modern birth defects, homosexuality, smallpox scarring, vaccination, orthopaedics, deaf education, eugenics, mental deficiency, and the experiences of psychologically scarred military veterans, this book provides new perspectives on the history of physical, sensory and intellectual anomaly.
Examining changes over five centuries, it charts how disability was delineated from other forms of deformity and disfigurement by a clearer medical perspective. Essays shed light on the experiences of oppressed minorities often hidden from mainstream history, but also demonstrate the importance of discourses of disability and deformity as key cultural signifiers which disclose broader systems of power and authority, citizenship and exclusion.
The diverse nature of the material in this book will make it relevant to scholars interested in cultural, literary, social and political, as well as medical, history.
Table of Contents
- Preface, David M. Turner
- Chapter 1 Introduction, David M. Turner
- Part 1 Disability and deformity, Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell
- Chapter 2 Representing physical difference, Kevin Stagg
- Chapter 3 'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it', David E. Shuttleton
- Chapter 4 Plague spots, Hal Gladfelder
- Chapter 5 'Wonderful Effects!!!', Suzanne Nunn
- Part 2 Controlling disabled bodies, Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell
- Chapter 6 Disciplining disabled bodies, Anne Borsay
- Chapter 7 Making deaf children talk, Francois Buton
- Chapter 8 Eugenics, modernity and nationalism, Ayca Alemdaro?lu
- Chapter 9 'Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats', Sharon Morris
- Chapter 10 'That bastard's following me!', Kristy Muir
- Chapter 11 Afterword - regulated bodies, Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell
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