Covering 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.
Covering 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.
Bill Hughes is Professor of Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was co-editor of Disability and Social Theory (2012), a regular contributor to and member of the Editorial Board of Disability & Society and, formerly, Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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