{"product_id":"social-histories-of-disability-and-david-m-turner-9780415360982","title":"Social Histories of Disability and Deformity: Bodies, Images and Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollecting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a variety of case studies including: early modern birth defects, homosexuality, smallpox scarring, vaccination, orthopaedics, deaf education, eugenics, mental deficiency, and the experiences of psychologically scarred military veterans, this book provides new perspectives on the history of physical, sensory and intellectual anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining changes over five centuries, it charts how disability was delineated from other forms of deformity and disfigurement by a clearer medical perspective. Essays shed light on the experiences of oppressed minorities often hidden from mainstream history, but also demonstrate the importance of discourses of disability and deformity as key cultural signifiers which disclose broader systems of power and authority, citizenship and exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diverse nature of the material in this book will make it relevant to scholars interested in cultural, literary, social and political, as well as medical, history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David M. Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415360986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415360982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.41w x 0.70d","brand":"David M. Turner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064903577855,"sku":"9780415360982","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff8d66cb-5b6b-4a00-ac32-f62f63eaf304.jpg?v=1768671813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/social-histories-of-disability-and-david-m-turner-9780415360982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}