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In Search of Better Angels : Stories of Disability in the Human Family.
This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a In Search of Better Angels : |b Stories of Disability in the Human Family. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction: Power and Epiphany-Reflections on the Personal and Cultural Value of Disabilities -- The Value of Disability -- Part I -- My Own Journey -- Chapter 1 -- Disability and Revelation: Lessons Learned and Flying Squirrels -- Chapter 2 -- Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: Mike and the Clown Faces -- Chapter 3 -- Inclusion, Exclusion, and other Matters of the Heart: The Story of Nan -- Chapter 4 -- Disabling Prejudice: Aunt Celie and the Marble Cake -- Chapter 5 -- Lessons in Patois: Learning to be a Jamaican -- Chapter 6 -- A Father's Proud Moment: The Day My Daughter became a Gifted Samaritan -- Chapter 7 -- Recapturing the Spirit of Caring: Uncle, Brownie, and Sausage Biscuits -- Part I: Questions to Ponder -- Part II -- Disability, Science, and Pseudoscience -- Chapter 8 -- Eugenics, Old and New: Mensa and the Human Genome Project -- The Tragedy of Involuntary Sterilization -- Eugenics: A Continuing Legacy -- The Human Genome Project and Mental Retardation -- Mental Retardation, "Felt Necessities," and Ethics -- Chapter 9 -- Eugenics Revisited: Buck versus Bell and The Bell Curve -- Chapter 10 -- Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For Whom the Bell Curves -- Chapter 11 -- Different Voices of Advocacy: Helen Keller and Burton Blatt -- Helen Keller: A Magnificent Exception -- Helen Keller and the Parameters of Advocacy -- Burton Blatt's Advocacy: The Golden Rule and beyond -- Legacies and Challenges -- Chapter 12 -- A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection -- Tarzan and the Triumph of Heredity -- Burroughs on Genetic Predetermination -- Burroughs on Breeding for Utopia -- Utopia and Disabilities. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 13 -- The Polio Vaccine Research and Children with Disabilities: Sacrifices for the Miracle -- Personal Reflections on Polio -- The Salk Vaccine and "Institutionalized" Research -- Feeding Live Polio Virus to Children with Disabilities -- Research and Disabilities: Other Cases -- Claiming a Place of Value for People with Disabilities: The Continuing Struggle -- Part II: Questions to Ponder -- Part III -- Disability in Historical and Literary Perspectives -- Chapter 14 -- Disability and the Need for a Romantic Science: Darwin's Last Child -- Chapter 15 -- Words of Understanding, Concepts of Inclusiveness: The Wisdom of Margaret Mead -- Chapter 16 -- The Question of Differential Advocacy: Laura Bridgman -- Constructing the Disability of Mental Retardation -- Disability and Invisibility -- Laura Bridgman: The First Miracle -- Chapter 17 -- Disabilities and the Challenges of Equality: Looking Backward, Looking Forward -- Looking Backward -- Looking Forward -- Chapter 18 -- Diversity and Disability: Individuality and Mental Retardation -- A Memory from Ignacy Goldberg -- Jack London's "Told in the Drooling Ward" -- The Typology of Mental Retardation -- Mental Retardation: Redefining or Disaggregating? -- Part III: Questions to Ponder -- Epilogue: Finding a Voice-The Story of Bill -- Index. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Children with disabilities |x Education. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Inclusive education. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Children with disabilities |x Care |x History. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Mainstreaming, Education. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Enfants handicapés |x Éducation. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Intégration scolaire. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Children with disabilities |x Care |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Children with disabilities |x Education |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Inclusive education |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History |2 fast | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Smith, J. David. |t In Search of Better Angels : Stories of Disability in the Human Family. |d Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, ©2003 |z 9780761938408 |
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