Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

Hsy, Dr Jonathan; Pearman, Professor Tory V.; Eyler, Professor Joshua R.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

04/2024

200

Mole

Inglês

9781350436756

15 a 20 dias

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Notes of Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction: Disabilities in Motion, Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA
Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA
Chapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA
Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Chapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Chapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Chapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA
Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA
Author and Editor Biographies
References
Index
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medicine; medical; disability studies; autism; illness