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xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Deaf.
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Deaf -- Great Britain.
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Deaf.
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Persons With Hearing Impairments |
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Personnes sourdes.
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Personnes sourdes -- Grande-Bretagne.
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deaf.
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Deaf. (OCoLC)fst00888436
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Doven.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Don, author.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Branson, Jan. Damned for their difference. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet, ©2002 (OCoLC)606829602 |
| ISBN |
1563681188 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781563681189 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1563681218 (softcover ; alk. paper) |
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9781563681219 (softcover ; alk. paper) |
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1563681161 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781563681165 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781563681714 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb34591 hdl |
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