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Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a
range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian
era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of
attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during
this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these
actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth
century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include
deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency,
imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in
popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes
can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators
responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and
the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode
medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal
views of impairment and inability. -- .
Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94
years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that
characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime,
Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds, and
wore a long, full beard. He taught school in Hartford, CT, then
followed his wife-to-be Mary Ann Walworth west to Anamosa, Iowa,
where in 1840, he built the area's first frame house. He pulled up
stakes nine years later to travel the Overland Trail on his way to
join the California Gold Rush. After he returned to Iowa in 1854,
he became the editor of the Anamosa Eureka, the local newspaper.
Edmund Booth fit perfectly the mold of the ingenious pioneer of
19th-century America, except for one unusual difference -- he was
deaf.
"Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer" follows the amazing career of this
American original and his equally amazing wife in fascinating
detail. Author Harry G. Lang vividly portrays Booth and his wife by
drawing from a remarkable array of original material. A prolific
writer, Booth corresponded with his fiance from the American School
for the Deaf in Hartford, and he kept a journal during his days on
the California trail, parts of which have been reproduced here. He
also wrote an autobiographical essay when he was 75, and his many
newspaper articles through the years bore first-hand witness to the
history of his times, from the Civil War to the advent of the 20th
century.
"Edmund Booth" depicts a larger-than-life man in larger-than-life
times, but perhaps its greatest contribution derives from its
narrative about pioneer days as seen through Deaf eyes. Booth
became a respected senior statesman of the American Deafcommunity,
and blended with his stories of the era's events are anecdotes and
issues vital to Deaf people and their families. His story proves
again that extraordinary people vary in many ways, but they often
possess a common motive in acting to enhance their own communities.
An electronic version of this book is also available under a
Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of
the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury,
illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more
visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution
sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining
the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was
vital to Britain's economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed
that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people
with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were
expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical
services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores
the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical,
welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields.
It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped
the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students
and academics interested in disability, occupational health and
social history. -- .
Birgit Schuhmacher analysiert typische Exklusionsrisiken von
Menschen mit Demenz und zeigt auf, wie der in menschenrechtlicher,
aber auch in systemtheoretischer Hinsicht universal zu denkende
Anspruch auf Inklusion fur sie umgesetzt werden kann. Die Autorin
untersucht den Bedeutungsgehalt der Begriffe Inklusion, Integration
und Teilhabe in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen. In Bezug auf Demenz
werden Ausgrenzung und Einbeziehung im (hohen) Alter, in der
Familie, im Sozialraum, in rechtlicher Hinsicht und am Ende des
Lebens diskutiert.
Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the
ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and
complex field. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach,
the book: examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives and
engages with current debates in the field explores key areas of
analysis, with chapters devoted to the individual, society,
community and education applies a global perspective encompassing
examples from the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada.
Encouraging and stimulating readers using thought-provoking
questions, exercises and activities, Disability Studies is a rich
and rewarding read for students and researchers engaging with
disability across the social sciences.
This book provides a unique insight into the challenges faced by
people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream
health and social services and by the professionals who are trying
to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and
viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves creates
an authoritative explanation of why this group of people face the
barriers they do. The contributors critique these barriers and also
offer potential solutions to overcoming them. Personal reflections
written by people with learning disablities on their experiences of
accessing health and social care services Comprehensive coverage of
policy in the four UK countries Comprehensive analysis by subject
experts of practice in a range of areas, from acute health care
through mental health to leisure and housing provision Accessible
summaries at the end of each chapter including text for people with
learning disablities
"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf
community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These
children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf,
forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston,
one of these children, takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing
cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and
resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on 150
interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout
the United States, Mother Father Deaf examines the process of
assimilation and cultural affiliation among a population whose
lives incorporate the paradox of being culturally "Deaf" yet
functionally hearing. It is rich in anecdote and analysis,
remarkable for its insights into a family life normally closed to
outsiders.
What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does
one respond to loss? Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to
answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the
vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm.
In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts feelings of bodily
integrity and agency. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary
analysis, Lana Lin tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary and queer theorist
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Freud's sixteen-year ordeal with a
prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers
and failures of prosthetic objects in warding off physical and
psychic fragmentation. Lorde's life writing reveals how losing a
breast to cancer is experienced as yet another attack directed
toward her racially and sexually vilified body. Sedgwick's memoir
and breast cancer advice column negotiate her morbidity by
disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. Lin
concludes with an analysis of reparative efforts at the rival Freud
Museums in London and Vienna. The disassembled Freudian archive,
like the subjectivities-in-dissolution upon which the book focuses,
shows how the labor of integration is tethered to persistent
discontinuities. Freud's Jaw asks what are the psychic effects of
surviving in proximity to one's mortality, and it suggests that
violences stemming from social, cultural, and biological
environments condition the burden of such injury. Drawing on
psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's concept of "reparation," wherein
constructive forces are harnessed to repair damage to internal
psychic objects, Lin proposes that the prospect of imminent
destruction paradoxically incites creativity. The afflicted are
obliged to devise means to reinstate, at least temporarily, their
destabilized physical and psychic unity through creative,
reparative projects of love and writing.
Combines perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand
militarism in international politics This vibrant collection of
essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide
range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the
military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises
three recent turns in the study of international politics:
aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual
framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates
society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even
turned against it.
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