The Routledge history of disability /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Histories of disabilities across time and cultures -- A brief overview of the Routledge History of Disability -- Introduction to Part I: Histories of disabilities across time and cultures -- Chapter 1: Reason, value and persons: the construction of intellectual disability in western thought from antiquity to the romantic age -- Introduction -- Reason, persons and value in classical thought -- Grace and innocence -- Medieval interlude -- Of devils, witches and the massa carnis -- Of reason and folly -- Reason, rights and sensualism -- Of remarkable men and the education of the idiot -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The courage of subordination: women and intellectual disability in the ancient Greek world -- Introduction and overview -- Gendered hierarchy -- The courage of subordination -- Dangerous female intellects -- Taming the female -- The environment of disabled intellects -- Intellectual impairment and desire -- Conclusions: Context and community -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Jane Austen and me: tales from the couch -- Inâ#x80;#x93;valids in the late 18th and early 19th centuries -- Invalids as workers and socializers -- Invalids as morally and religiously enlightened -- Invalids as travellers -- Mansfield Park -- Persuasion -- Sanditon -- Jane Austenâ#x80;#x99;s invalidism -- References -- Chapter 4: Developments in disability issues during the Late Ottoman period of Turkish history from 1876 to 1909 -- Introduction -- Tracing the historical roots of care of disabled people during the Ottoman reign.…”
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