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35 produkter
Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain
Leisure and Cohesion, 1945–95
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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Setting a case study of deaf people’s leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. The book provides a detailed analysis of deaf people’s leisure during …
Destigmatising Mental Illness?
Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870–1970
Av Vicky Long
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations …
Framing the Moron
The Social Construction of Feeble-Mindedness in the American Eugenic Era
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900–30). Such social control efforts are easier to understand when …
Worth Saving
Disabled Children During the Second World War
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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Early in the war, when faced with an acute shortage of accommodation for evacuees, a government official questioned whether disabled children were ‘worth saving’. This book examines how the evacuation in England was planned, executed and evaluated for children with various disabilities (including …
Recycling the Disabled
Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany
Inbunden, 2014
1132 kr
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Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance …
Fools and Idiots?
Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical …
Fools and Idiots?
Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical …
Deafness, community and culture in Britain
Leisure and cohesion, 1945–95
Häftad, 2016
374 kr
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Setting a case study of deaf people’s leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first time in paperback, the book provides a detailed …
Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820–1939
Inbunden, 2017
1337 kr
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This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability …
Recycling the Disabled
Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany
Häftad, 2017
456 kr
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Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance …
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780–1880
Av David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie
Inbunden, 2018
442 kr
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The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an …
Disability in Industrial Britain
A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948
Av Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
456 kr
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An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled …
Disability in Industrial Britain
A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948
Av Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
56 kr
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry …
Disability in Industrial Britain
A Cultural and Literary History of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948
Av Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
57 kr
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry …
Intellectual Disability
A Conceptual History, 1200–1900
Av Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1337 kr
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This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend …
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780–1880
Av David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie
E-bok, 2018
57 kr
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The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an …
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780–1880
Av David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie
E-bok, 2018
57 kr
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The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an …
Eradicating Deafness?
Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book traces how American heredity researchers moved from trying to eradicate deafness to embracing it as a …
Eradicating Deafness?
Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book traces how American heredity researchers moved from trying to eradicate deafness to embracing it as a …
Eradicating Deafness?
Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book traces how American heredity researchers moved from trying to eradicate deafness to embracing it as a …
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
A Difficult Homecoming
Inbunden, 2020
1236 kr
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With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of former …
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
A Difficult Homecoming
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of former …
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
A Difficult Homecoming
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of former …
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period
Inbunden, 2020
456 kr
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Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. Using measurement technology as a lens, and examining in particular the measurement of hearing and breathing, this book draws together several …
Disability and the Victorians
Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies
Av Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also …
Disability and the Victorians
Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies
Av Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1236 kr
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Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also …
Disability and the Victorians
Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies
Av Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
294 kr
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Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also …
Intellectual Disability
A Conceptual History, 1200–1900
Av Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend …
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
A Difficult Homecoming
Häftad, 2022
374 kr
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With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of former …
Disability and the Victorians
Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies
Av Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
374 kr
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Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also …
