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Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979
Author(s): Anne Borsay (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 July 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848933614
- ISBN-13: 9781848933613
Book Description
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘an impressive array of essays analyzing the experiences of disabled children in Western nations that span a nearly one-hundred-and-thirty-year period … These essays can teach historians much about creation and maintenance of disability definitions.’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences ‘This is an impressively wide-ranging volume – thematically, chronologically, and geographically. It significantly adds to our understanding of the complex history of the care of disabled children and will be a necessary starting point for future research in the field’. John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University ‘a welcome addition to the literature on lived disability and opens up a new area of previously unexplored territory for scholars from a wide range of disciplines.’ Social History of Medicine ‘This is a timely and interesting edited collection which examines disabled children’s interaction with medical and educational services.’ H-Net Review
About the Author
Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale
