Newman, Sara.
Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2013.
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Part of the series Disability in society;Disability in society.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index.
- Disability and life writing — Ancient sources: outcasts, oracles, and old age — Medieval voices: sins, salvation, and the female body — Early modern era: reenacting reform — The long eighteenth century: reason and logic — In an enlightened age — The nineteenth century: insanity and asylums — The early twentieth century: Helen Keller — And the public reception of disability — The twentieth century: military, biomedical — And personal perspectives — Into the twenty-first century: presence — In the digital age.
- What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history–from ancient Greece to the present day–to reveal the interplay of dynamics that have shaped both personal and societal conceptions of mental and physical difference. –Publisher’s website.
Subjects:
- People with disabilities — History.
- Disability studies.
- Sociology of disability.
- Disabled Persons — history.
- History of Medicine.
Requested by Ohlander, D.