Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Storie. Dunn, Dunn,**

Princeton University Press

Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind SeeStories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds\nAuthor(s): Mary Dunn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691233598, 978-0691233598\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disabilityand what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference\n\nIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See explores the case of early modern Catholic Canada under French rule and shows it to be a period rich with alternative understandings of infirmity, disease, and death. Counternarratives to our contemporary assumptions, these early modern stories invite us to creatively imagine ways of living meaningfully with embodied difference today.\n\.