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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, J. David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2003.
Temas:
Children with disabilities > Education.
Inclusive education.
Children with disabilities > Care > History.
Mainstreaming, Education.
Enfants handicapés > Éducation.
Intégration scolaire.
Children with disabilities > Care
Children with disabilities > Education
Inclusive education
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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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