A historical sociology of disability : human validity and invalidity from antiquity to early modernity /: human validity and invalidity from antiquity to early modernity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bill Hughes.
• Authors: Hughes, Bill, 1956-
• Contents: List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Violating disability; Chapter outlines; Concluding remarks; PART 1: Method and Theory; CHAPTER 1: Thinking through disability history: An act of recovery; Introduction; Methodological self-consciousness: The author in the confessional; New Historicism; The place of Proprium and moral economy in a historical sociology of disability; History of disability or a history of impairment; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 2: Modelling disability theory: A contemporary history of the disability idea; Introduction; First wave radicalism: The social model of disability; The second wave: Conceptual proliferation, Critical Disability Studies and the growth of the cultural model of disability; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 3: Conceptualising property and propriety, validity and invalidation; Introduction; Recognition: Moral economy of propriety; Ableism: the cloak of validity; Invalidation; Concluding remarks; Part 1: Concluding remarks; PART 2: Disability in History: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modernity; Part 2: Introductory remarks; CHAPTER 4: Disability in ancient Greece and Rome; Introduction; Arete : The contours of classical propriety; ‘And those of the worst’: Disposable bodies; Pharmakos : The disabled scapegoat; An ocular-centric culture of light and appearance: being blind in Greco-Roman society; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 5: Disability in the Christian Middle Ages; Introduction; Eristic Christianity; God, Church and state: Normate power triangulated; Theological invalidations: The others of the unscathed; Ambiguous God, ambiguous scripture, ambiguous testaments of sin and disability; God’s tease: Saints and sinners; No ears to hear, no eyes to see … the wonders of God; The era of ridicule; From monsters to demons; Merciful conduct: A stairway to heaven; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 6: Renaissance and Reformation: Disability invalidation in Early Modernity; Introduction; Interregnum; Aesthetics and classical revivalism; Demons and witches; Monsters; Dark subjects; Savages and heathens; Social dislocation: Vagabonds and beggars; Fools and folly; ‘Each to his own’: The closed Protestant body; Concluding remarks; CONCLUSION: A banquet of indignities; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.908; Sociology of disability -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429615207; 9780429616419; 9780429613999; 9780429056673
• Related ISBNs: 9780367174187; 9780367174200
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