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A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions /

In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854--memorialized to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stuckey, Zosha, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.
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