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Eradicating Deafness? - Genetics, Pathology, And Diversity In Twentieth-Century America

by Marion Andrea Schmidt

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 How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .
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Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans In Ireland, 1918-39 - A Difficult Homecoming

by Michael Robinson

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 This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .
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Intellectual Disability - A Conceptual History, 1200â€“1900

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 This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .
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Disability And The Victorians - Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies

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 Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .
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Disability In Industrial Britain - A Cultural And Literary History Of Impairment In The Coal Industry, 1880-1948

by Alexandra Jones, Kirsti Bohata, Mike Mantin e Steven Thompson

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 This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets â€˜thronged with the maimed and mutilatedâ€™. -- .
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Disability In The Industrial Revolution - Physical Impairment In British Coalmining, 1780-1880

by Daniel Blackie e David M. Turner

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 This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled peopleâ€™s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britainâ€™s Industrial Revolution. -- .
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Eradicating Deafness? - Genetics, Pathology, And Diversity In Twentieth-Century America

by Marion Andrea Schmidt

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 How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .
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Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans In Ireland, 1918-39 - A Difficult Homecoming

by Michael Robinson

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .
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Disability And The Victorians - Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .
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Eradicating Deafness? - Genetics, Pathology, And Diversity In Twentieth-Century America

by Marion Andrea Schmidt

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .
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Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans In Ireland, 1918-39 - A Difficult Homecoming

by Michael Robinson

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .
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Disability And The Victorians - Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .
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Disability In Industrial Britain - A Cultural And Literary History Of Impairment In The Coal Industry, 1880-1948

by Alexandra Jones, Kirsti Bohata, Mike Mantin e Steven Thompson

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets â€˜thronged with the maimed and mutilatedâ€™. -- .
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Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal - Setting The Standards For Disability In The Interwar Period

by Coreen Mcguire

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 This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. -- .
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Disability And The Victorians - Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies

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 Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .
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Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans In Ireland, 1918-39 - A Difficult Homecoming

by Michael Robinson

114,91€ + 10% CARD

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 This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .
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Eradicating Deafness? - Genetics, Pathology, And Diversity In Twentieth-Century America

by Marion Andrea Schmidt

114,91€ + 10% CARD

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 How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .
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Worth Saving - Disabled Children During The Second World War

by Sue Wheatcroft

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 The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- .
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Disability In Industrial Britain - A Cultural And Literary History Of Impairment In The Coal Industry, 1880-1948

by Alexandra Jones, Kirsti Bohata, Mike Mantin e Steven Thompson

40,56€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets â€˜thronged with the maimed and mutilatedâ€™. -- .
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Intellectual Disability - A Conceptual History, 1200-1900

29,72€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .
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Disability In The Industrial Revolution - Physical Impairment In British Coalmining, 1780-1880

by Daniel Blackie e David M. Turner

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled peopleâ€™s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britainâ€™s Industrial Revolution. -- .
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Disability In The Industrial Revolution - Physical Impairment In British Coalmining, 1780â€“1880

by Daniel Blackie e David M. Turner

40,56€ + 10% CARD

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 This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled peopleâ€™s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britainâ€™s Industrial Revolution. -- .
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Recycling The Disabled - Army, Medicine, And Modernity In Wwi Germany

by Heather Perry

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 Examines the â€œmedical organisationâ€ of Imperial Germany for total war -- .
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Destigmatising Mental Illness? - Professional Politics And Public Education In Britain, 1870-1970

by Vicky Long

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 Examines mental healthcare workersâ€™ efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970 -- .
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