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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity - Bodies, Images and Experiences (Hardcover)
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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity - Bodies, Images and Experiences (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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Deformed and disabled bodies have been subject to a variety of
responses throughout history: being seen as omens or prodigies;
divine punishment for sin; freaks and curiosities; as inducing
laughter; embarrassment or compassion; and as the subjects of
disciplining initiatives; institutionalization or medical and
charitable care. Essays in this collection, written by an
international set of contributors, provide a scholarly social
history of disability: they explore changes in understandings of
deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth
centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have
conceptualized the normal and the pathological.
The book provides an important contribution to the emerging field
of disability history. 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 asmedical, history.
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