Cultural Locations of Disability
In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed defectives through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. Snyder and Mitchell argue that the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability p…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mitchell, David T.
- ISBN: 978-0-226-76732-1
- EAN: 9780226767321
- Produktnummer: 1447051
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.9 cm 422 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Abbildungen: 32 halftones
- Gewicht: 422
Über den Autor
Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell are faculty in the Department of Disability and Human Development and the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Together they have made four documentary films, authored three books, and led seminars in disability as a matter of pedagogy, politics, culture, and history.
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