Neuware - 'In an age of modern biomedicine and global pandemic, we are strongly inclined to consider illness and disability as problems in need of scientific solutions. History informs us, however, that bodily and mental illness and disabilities have been understood in myriad ways across time and space. This book introduces readers to an alternative understanding of such matters formed in the Christian-Catholic culture of early modern French Canada. In a society that subscribed uniformly to a Christian view of salvation, sickness and disability were always more than physical problems in need of resolution-these were phenomena freighted with moral and spiritual significance. They were occasions for the demonstration of virtue, an invitation to charity, a medium of redemption, and/or an opportunity for conversion. Dunn takes us on a tour of early modern French Canadian understandings of sickness and disability through a close examination of four distinct historical sources: recorded stories told by Jesuits in New France, in particular accounts of sickness and (occasional) healing of Indigenous peoples; stories of sickness crafted in an institutional history of Canada's first hospital, published in 1751; representations of disability in a late seventeenth-century hagiographic description of a venerated, self-sacrificing nun and hospital leader; and a dossier compiled in the early eighteenth century in support of the canonization of a Franciscan Friar. Considering these sources alongside each other, and alongside her own experience as the mother of a child with a disability, the author aims not to recuperate these early modern understandings-which she readily acknowledges were accompanied by cruelty, intolerance, and racism-but rather to explore how and why they made sense in their time and place. In doing so, she opens up a space of critical distance between ourselves and our own deeply internalized views of sickness and disability, and offers a challenge to extant norms of historiography that avoids the personal and the possibility that the present and the past inform each other'.

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Titel: Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See : Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds
Verlag: Princeton University Press Jun 2022
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0691233225
ISBN-13: 9780691233222
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu
Abmessungen: Breite: 222 mm, H�he: 148 mm, Tiefe: 25 mm
Gewicht: 430 Gramm

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An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability―and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference

In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See explores the case of early modern Catholic Canada under French rule and shows it to be a period rich with alternative understandings of infirmity, disease, and death. Counternarratives to our contemporary assumptions, these early modern stories invite us to creatively imagine ways of living meaningfully with embodied difference today.

At the heart of Dunn’s account are a range of historical sources: Jesuit stories of illness in New France, an account of Canada’s first hospital, the hagiographic vita of Catherine de Saint-Augustin, and tales of miraculous healings wrought by a dead Franciscan friar. In an early modern world that subscribed to a Christian view of salvation, both sickness and disability held significance for more than the body, opening opportunities for virtue, charity, and even redemption. Dunn demonstrates that when these reflections collide with modern thinking, the effect is a certain kind of freedom to reimagine what sickness and disability might mean to us.

Reminding us that the meanings we make of embodied difference are historically conditioned, Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See makes a forceful case for the role of history in broadening our imagination.

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Mary Dunn is associate professor of early modern Christianity at Saint Louis University. Her books include The Cruelest of All Mothers and Religious Intimacies.

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