How has our understanding and treatment of disability evolved in
Western culture? How has it been represented and perceived in
different social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans
2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by over 50
experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a
period in history. The volumes describe different kinds of physical
and mental disabilities, their representations and receptions, and
what impact they have had on society and everyday life. Individual
volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as
easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each
of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific
period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history
by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes
cover: 1. - Antiquity (500 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (500 -
1450); 3. - Renaissance (1400 - 1650) ; 4. - Long Eighteenth
Century (1650 - 1800); 5. - Long Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1920);
6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are:
atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness;
blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; mental health.
The page extent is approximately 2,000pp with c. 200 illustrations.
Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, a series preface and
an introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an
Index.
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