Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in HistoryThis book will help to develop a social history on disabilities by providing a multidisciplinary overview of images of people with disabilities in Western history; promoting the exchange of cross-disciplinary information on disabled people from art, literature, original data, and historical works; filling the gap in our understanding of how disabled people were viewed prior to modern history; illustrating how art and literature can be used to understand how disabled people were perceived in their respective times; and showing how historical factors shape some of our current perceptions about disability. |
Contents
People Who Had Developmental Disabilities | 236 |
Epilogue | 273 |
References | 279 |
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