Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Branson, Jan (Author), Miller, Don (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet, ©2002.
Subjects:	Deaf people. Deaf people > Great Britain. Cochlear implants. Children. Decision making. deaf. children (people by age group) decision making. HEALTH & FITNESS > Physical Impairments. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Decision making Cochlear implants Children Deaf Doven. Great Britain
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Table of Contents:

I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview
1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics
2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason
II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination
3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century
4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century
5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century
6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century
7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology
8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming
9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people.

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