A cultural history of disability in the Modern age

Author(s)

• Mitchell, David T.
• Snyder, Sharon L.
• Bolt, David
• McRuer, Robert

Bibliographic Information

A cultural history of disability in the Modern age

edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

（The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of disability / general editors David Bolt and Robert McRuer ; v. 6）

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

• : hb

Other Title

In the Modern age

Note

Set ISBN for subseries "A cultural history of disability ": 9781350029538

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-182) and index

"First published 2020"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability's deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of body-mind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability - David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University, USA Ch 1: Atypical Bodies - Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Ch 2: Mobility Impairment - Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, UK Ch 3: Chronic Pain - Theodora Danylevich. George Washington University, USA Ch 4: Blindness - Tanya Titchkosky & Rod Michalko, University of Toronto, Canada Ch 5: Deafness - Sam Yates, George Washington University, USA Ch 6: Speech - Zephyrous Zahari, George Washington University, USA Ch 7: Learning difficulties - Owen Barden, Hope Liverpool University, UK Ch 8: Mental Health Issues - Anne McGuire, University of Toronto, Canada Notes Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB29485285
• ISBN:
  • 9781350029293
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 193 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Disabilities -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB27280543