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Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies (Disability History) - Softcover

Buch 12 von 14: Disability History
 
9781526163929: Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies (Disability History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526163926 ISBN 13: 9781526163929
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal views of impairment and inability.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Iain Hutchison is Research Affiliate in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow

Martin Atherton is Retired Course Leader for British Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of Central Lancashire

Jaipreet Virdi is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Delaware

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The prejudices and challenges that people with impairments face in modern society are a direct consequence of the medicalisation of disability that occurred during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). This collection investigates how and why the legacies of Victorian attitudes and interventions continue into the present century. Taking a wide range of physical, sensory and mental impairments into consideration, the contributors show how Victorian philanthropic interventions in the fields of education, social policy, care provision, employment and employability sought to improve the lives of those who found themselves marginalised and excluded from mainstream society. Whether this exclusion resulted from illness, injury, disease or impairment, clear distinctions were made between those deemed able to be restored to societal norms of ability and behaviour and those who could not.

Offering an illustration of how Victorian attitudes and interventions were exported throughout the British Empire and beyond, this collection offers a timely and valuable insight into the shadow cast by our Victorian forebears.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526163926
ISBN 13 
9781526163929
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
218
Herausgeber
Hutchison Iain, Atherton Martin, Virdi Jaipreet
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