| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Damned for their difference/ Jan Branson and Don Miller. |
| Reminder of title: |
the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / |
| Author: |
Branson, Jan. |
| other author: |
Miller, Don. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :Gallaudet, : c2002., |
| Description: |
xx, 300 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview -- 1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics -- 2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason -- II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination -- 3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century -- 4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century -- 5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century -- 6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century -- 7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology -- 8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming -- 9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people. |
| Subject: |
Deaf - Great Britain. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=124734An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1563681714 (electronic bk.) |