Social Histories of Disability and Deformity: Bodies, Images and Experiences (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine: Vol. 25)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2006

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
224 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781134235582
Related ISBNs:
9780203008522, 9780415360982, 9780415511513
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg for selection and editorial matter
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
David M. Turner
Edited by:
Kevin Stagg

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