Historical Sociology of Disability

Name: Historical Sociology of Disability
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

A Historical Sociology of DisabilityHuman Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity\nAuthor(s): Bill Hughes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367174187, 978-0367174187\nSynopsis\nCovering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and with the rise of Christianity good to be good to. It examines the place and role of disabled people in the moral economy of the successive cultures that have constituted Western civilisation. \n\nThis book is the story of disability as it is imagined and re-imagined through the cultural lens of ableism. It is a story of invalidation; of the material habituations of culture and moral sentiment that paint pictures of disability as what not to be. The author examines the forces of moral regulation that fall violently in behind the dehumanising, o.