The Routledge History of Disability (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hanes, Roy; Hansen, Nancy E.; Brown, Ivan

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, chapters discuss topics such as developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman period and the systematic killing of disabled children in Nazi Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351774048
• Artikelnr.: 50004381

Autorenporträt

Roy Hanes is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada. He was a founding member of the Canadian Disability Studies Association and is well known for his disability rights activism. Ivan Brown was Head of the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a founding editor of the Journal on Developmental Disabilities. Nancy E. Hansen is Director of the Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and past president of the Canadian Disability Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Histories of Disabilities Across Time and Cultures
Introduction to Part I CH. 1. Reason, value and persons: The construction
of intellectual disability in western thought from antiquity to the
romantic age CH. 2. The Courage of subordination: Women and intellectual
disability in the ancient Greek World CH. 3. Jane Austen and Me: Tales from
the Couch CH. 4. Developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman
period of Turkish history from 1876 to 1909 CH. 5. A short history of
disability in Italy CH.6. A short history of disability aspects from Israel
Part II: Histories of national disability policies, programs and services
Introduction to Part II CH. 7. The role of international institutions in
the process of categorization of 'disabled people' (1930-1975) CH. 8.
Disabilities and Disability Services in Nigeria: Past, Present and Future
CH. 9. A Short History of Approaches to Disability in the Netherlands CH.
10. A Journey of Change - Histories of Disability in Hong Kong 1841-2014
CH. 11. Historical Development of Disability Services in Singapore:
Enabling CH. 11. Historical Development of Disability Services in
Singapore: Enabling Persons with Disabilities CH.12. Swedish disability
policies: Ideas, values and practices in a historical perspective CH.13.
One difference is enough: Towards a history of disability in Belgian-Congo,
1908-1960 Part III: Histories of Education and Training, Introduction to
Part III CH. 14. From their own hands: Collecting oral testimony in signing
communities CH.15. The history of access to education of people with visual
impairments in Great Britain from 1790 to 1999 CH.16. Out of Sight, Out of
Mind: Blind Asylums and Missions in Scotland CH.17. Exposure and recovery:
Tracing disability history in the midst of cultural absence CH.18.
Australian Histories of Intellectual Disabilities CH. 19. History and
national policy documents on special education in Sweden CH. 20. The
Italian Path to School and Social Inclusion: Problems, Strengths and
Perspectives CH. 21. Education of People with Intellectual Disabilities and
Hearing Impairments in Spain: A Historical Approach CH.22. The Case of the
"Dull" Pupil in the Norwegian Folk School 1892-1930 Part IV: Spectacle,
Science, Services and Civil Rights Introduction to Part IV CH. 23. The
freak show act: Science and spectacle in the nineteenth century CH. 24.
Three Illusions in clinical photographs of the feeble minded during the
Eugenics era CH. 25. When is life unworthy of living? Lessons from the
systematic killing of children with disabilities in Nazi Germany Ch. 26.
The Genesis of Societies for Crippled Children in Canada and their American
Roots CH. 27. Breaking the rules: Summer camping experiences and the lives
of Ontario children growing up with polio in the 1940s and 1950s CH. 28.
Changing America's consciousness: A brief history of the Independent Living
Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Concluding Remarks, Index