Disability in eighteenth-century England : imagining physical impairment

Disability in eighteenth-century England : imagining physical impairment / David M. Turner.

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in mak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, David M., 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge studies in modern British history ; 8.
Subjects:
1700-1799
People with disabilities > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Health attitudes.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Medicine
Health attitudes
People with disabilities
Behinderung
Behinderung.
Great Britain
England
Grossbritannien.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Defining disability and deformity
  • Religious and medical perspectives on disability
  • Stereotypes and cultural representation
  • Visibility and visualisation : seeing the disabled
  • Disabled lives and letters
  • Narratives of the disabled poor
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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