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Social perceptions of people with disabilities in history /
This 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; f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springfield, Ill. :
Charles C. Thomas,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780398082598 0398082596 |