Bill Hughes

A Historical Sociology of Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in western society as good to mistreat and - with the rise of Christianity - good to be good to.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429615207
• Artikelnr.: 57808638

Autorenporträt

Bill Hughes is Professor of Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was co-editor of Disability and Social Theory (2012), a regular contributor to and member of the Editorial Board of Disability & Society and, formerly, Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Violating disability
Chapter outlines
Concluding remarks
PART 1: Method and Theory
CHAPTER 1: Thinking through disability history: An act of recovery
Introduction
Methodological self-consciousness: The author in the confessional
New Historicism
The place of Proprium and moral economy in a historical sociology of disability
History of disability or a history of impairment
Concluding remarks
CHAPTER 2: Modelling disability theory: A contemporary history of the disability idea
Introduction
First wave radicalism: The social model of disability
The second wave: Conceptual proliferation, Critical Disability Studies and the growth of the cultural model of disability
Concluding remarks
CHAPTER 3: Conceptualising property and propriety, validity and invalidation
Introduction
Recognition: Moral economy of propriety
Ableism: the cloak of validity
Invalidation
Concluding remarks
Part 1: Concluding remarks
PART 2: Disability in History: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modernity
Part 2: Introductory remarks
CHAPTER 4: Disability in ancient Greece and Rome
Introduction
Arete: The contours of classical propriety
'And those of the worst': Disposable bodies
Pharmakos: The disabled scapegoat
An ocular-centric culture of light and appearance: being blind in Greco-Roman society
Concluding Remarks
CHAPTER 5: Disability in the Christian Middle Ages
Introduction
Eristic Christianity
God, Church and state: Normate power triangulated
Theological invalidations: The others of the unscathed
Ambiguous God, ambiguous scripture, ambiguous testaments of sin and disability
God's tease: Saints and sinners
No ears to hear, no eyes to see ... the wonders of God
The era of ridicule
From monsters to demons
Merciful conduct: A stairway to heaven
Concluding remarks
CHAPTER 6: Renaissance and Reformation: Disability invalidation in Early Modernity
Introduction
Interregnum
Aesthetics and classical revivalism
Demons and witches
Monsters
Dark subjects
Savages and heathens
Social dislocation: Vagabonds and beggars
Fools and folly
'Each to his own': The closed Protestant body
Concluding remarks
CONCLUSION: A banquet of indignities
Index