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Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history /
Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Gallaudet,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview
- 1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics
- 2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason
- II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination
- 3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century
- 4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century
- 5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century
- 6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century
- 7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology
- 8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming
- 9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people.