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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity Book

Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity, Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth a, Social Histories of Disability and Deformity has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
  • Written by author David M. Turner
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., August 2006
  • Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth a
  • Deformed and disabled bodies have been subject to a variety of responses throughout history: being seen as omens or prodigies; divine punishment for sin; freaks and curiosities; as inducing laughter; embarrassment or compassion; and as the subjects of
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List of figures     ix
Notes on contributors     x
Preface     xiii
Introduction: approaching anomalous bodies   David M. Turner     1
Discipline and deformity: the medical and moral world of monstrosity     17
Representing physical difference: the materiality of the monstrous   Kevin Stagg     19
'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it': the rhetoric of smallpox at the Restoration   David E. Shuttleton     39
Plague Spots   Hal Gladfelder     56
'Wonderful effects!!!' Graphic satires of vaccination in the first decade of the nineteenth century   Suzanne Nunn     79
Controlling disabled bodies: medicine, politics and policy     95
Disciplining disabled bodies: the development of orthopaedic medicine in Britain, c. 1800-1939   Anne Borsay     97
Making deaf children talk: changes in educational policy towards the deaf in the French Third Republic   Francois Buton     117
Eugenics, modernity and nationalism   Ayca Alemdaroglu     126
'Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats': the interwar debate on sterilization of the mentally deficient   Sharon Morris     142
'That bastard's following me!' Mentally ill Australian veterans struggling to maintain control   Kristy Muir     161
Afterword - regulated bodies: disability studies and the controlling professions   Sharon Snyder   David Mitchell     175
Index     190


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