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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

Bodies, Images and Experiences

Social Histories of Disability and Deformity( )
Editor: Turner, David M.
Stagg, Kevin
Series title:Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine Ser.
ISBN:978-0-415-51151-3
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $61.95
Book Description:

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 and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.

Through a variety of case studies including: early modern birth defects, homosexuality, smallpox...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / People With Disabilities
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.318 x 9.048 x 0.507 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds



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