Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Iain Hutchison is Research Affiliate in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow Martin Atherton is Retired Course Leader for British Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of Central Lancashire Jaipreet Virdi is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Delaware
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword - Karen Sayer Introduction - Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton and Jaipreet Virdi Part I: Attitudes 1 Restoration to usefulness: Victorian middle-class attitudes towards the healthcare of the working poor - Amy W Farnbach Pearson 2 Imperial lives - confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians - Esme Cleall 3 Disabling the author in Mid-Victorian realist fiction: case studies of George Eliot and Harriet Martineau - Deborah M Fratz Part II: Interventions 4 Medicalising deafness in Victorian London: the Royal Ear Hospital, 1816-1916 - Jaipreet Virdi 5 Drunkenness, degeneration, and disability in England - Joanne Woiak 6 Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities - Paula Hellal and Marjorie Lorch 7 'Happiness and usefulness increased": Consuming ability in the antebellum artificial limb market - Caroline Lieffers Part III: Legacies 8 The disabled child in an industrial metropolis: Glasgow's children's hospital, Scottish convalescent homes 'in the country', and east park home for infirm children - Iain Hutchison 9 The panopticon: Towards an intimate history of special schools for the blind - Fred Reid 10 Allowed to be idle: Perpetuating Victorian attitudes to deafness and employability in United Kingdom social policy - Martin Atherton Index
Foreword - Karen Sayer Introduction - Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton and Jaipreet Virdi Part I: Attitudes 1 Restoration to usefulness: Victorian middle-class attitudes towards the healthcare of the working poor - Amy W Farnbach Pearson 2 Imperial lives - confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians - Esme Cleall 3 Disabling the author in Mid-Victorian realist fiction: case studies of George Eliot and Harriet Martineau - Deborah M Fratz Part II: Interventions 4 Medicalising deafness in Victorian London: the Royal Ear Hospital, 1816-1916 - Jaipreet Virdi 5 Drunkenness, degeneration, and disability in England - Joanne Woiak 6 Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities - Paula Hellal and Marjorie Lorch 7 'Happiness and usefulness increased": Consuming ability in the antebellum artificial limb market - Caroline Lieffers Part III: Legacies 8 The disabled child in an industrial metropolis: Glasgow's children's hospital, Scottish convalescent homes 'in the country', and east park home for infirm children - Iain Hutchison 9 The panopticon: Towards an intimate history of special schools for the blind - Fred Reid 10 Allowed to be idle: Perpetuating Victorian attitudes to deafness and employability in United Kingdom social policy - Martin Atherton Index
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