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Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See - Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds (Hardcover)
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Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See - Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds (Hardcover)
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An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and
disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily
difference In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness
and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of
embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of
lack and loss. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See explores the
case of early modern Catholic Canada under French rule and shows it
to be a period rich with alternative understandings of infirmity,
disease, and death. Counternarratives to our contemporary
assumptions, these early modern stories invite us to creatively
imagine ways of living meaningfully with embodied difference today.
At the heart of Dunn's account are a range of historical sources:
Jesuit stories of illness in New France, an account of Canada's
first hospital, the hagiographic vita of Catherine de
Saint-Augustin, and tales of miraculous healings wrought by a dead
Franciscan friar. In an early modern world that subscribed to a
Christian view of salvation, both sickness and disability held
significance for more than the body, opening opportunities for
virtue, charity, and even redemption. Dunn demonstrates that when
these reflections collide with modern thinking, the effect is a
certain kind of freedom to reimagine what sickness and disability
might mean to us. Reminding us that the meanings we make of
embodied difference are historically conditioned, Where Paralytics
Walk and the Blind See makes a forceful case for the role of
history in broadening our imagination.
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