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PaperbackEngels9780719099786
25-2-2016
A case study of deaf people's leisure in England within a wider British context and gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community. It questions perceptions of deafness as a disability and shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719096372
6-3-2018
Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719084676
1-6-2012
Sets a case study of deaf people’s leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community; questions perceptions of deafness as a disability; shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719087097
30-4-2013
Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719088001
30-4-2013
The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- . Meer
GebondenEngels9780719089244
31-8-2014
Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war -- . Meer
GebondenEngels9780719085819
31-7-2014
Examines mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970 -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526182395
29-10-2024
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? Meer
GebondenEngels9781526140050
7-4-2020
This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526162496
15-2-2022
This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526163929
12-7-2022
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. Meer
GebondenEngels9781526101426
26-4-2017
A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. Meer
GebondenEngels9781526118158
3-4-2018
This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people’s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. Meer
GebondenEngels9781526125316
4-1-2018
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526151643
30-3-2021
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781784991074
4-1-2016
Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781784991197
1-10-2015
The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526106773
3-1-2017
Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war -- . Meer
GebondenEngels9781526143174
11-8-2020
This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. Meer
GebondenEngels9781526138170
22-4-2020
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? Meer