Writing disability : a critical history / Sara Newman.

  • Newman, Sara J.
Date:
2013
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, 2013.

Physical description

vii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    NH.U
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ISBN

  • 9781935049548
  • 1935049542