Changing social attitudes toward disability : perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies /
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ulti...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in disability studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Disability, attitudes, and history; 1 Evolution and human uniqueness: prehistory, disability, and the unexpected anthropology of Charles Darwin; 2 Killer consumptive in the Wild West: the posthumous decline of Doc Holliday; 3 'Beings in another galaxy': historians, the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme, and the question of opposition; 4 Disability and photojournalism in the age of the image; 5 Mental disability and rhetoricity retold: the memoir on drugs.
- Part II Disability, attitudes, and culture; 6 The 'hunchback': across cultures and time; 7 Altered men: war, body trauma, and the origins of the cyborg soldier in American science fiction; 8 The cultural work of disability and illness memoirs: schizophrenia as collaborative life narrative; 9 Impaired or empowered? Mapping disability onto European literature; 10 The supremacy of sight: aesthetics, representations, and attitudes; Part III Disability, attitudes, and education; 11 Ethnic cleansing? Disability and the colonisation of the intranet.
- 12 Creative subjects? Critically documenting art education and disability; 13 Dysrationalia: an institutional learning disability?; 14 'Lexism' and the temporal problem of defining 'dyslexia'; 15 Behaviour, emotion, and social attitudes: the education of 'challenging' pupils; Epilogue: attitudes and actions; Contributors; Index.