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Author:   David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138216051

ISBN 10:   1138216054
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   04 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives From Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies David Bolt Part 1: Disability, Attitudes, and History 1. Evolution and Human Uniqueness: Prehistory, Disability, and the Unexpected Anthropology of Charles Darwin David Doat 2. Killer Consumptive in the Wild West: The Posthumous Decline of Doc Holliday Alex Tankard 3. ‘Beings in Another Galaxy’: Historians, the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme, and the Question of Opposition Emmeline Burdett 4. Disability and Photojournalism in the Age of the Image Alice Hall 5. Mental Disability and Rhetoricity Retold: The Memoir on Drugs Catherine Prendergast Part 2: Disability, Attitudes, and Culture 6. The ‘Hunchback’: Across Cultures and Time Tom Coogan 7. Altered Men: War, Body Trauma, and the Origins of the Cyborg Soldier in American Science Fiction Sue Smith 8. The Cultural Work of Disability and Illness Memoirs: Schizophrenia as Collaborative Life Narrative Stella Bolaki 9. Impaired or Empowered? Mapping Disability onto European Literature Pauline Eyre 10. The Supremacy of Sight: Aesthetics, Representations, and Attitudes David Bolt Part 3: Disability, Attitudes, and Education 11. Ethnic Cleansing? Disability and the Colonisation of the Intranet Alan Hodkinson 12. Creative Subjects? Critically Documenting Art Education and Disability Claire Penketh 13. Dysrationalia: An Institutional Learning Disability? Owen Barden 14. 'Lexism' and the Temporal Problem of Defining 'Dyslexia' Craig Collinson 15. Behaviour, Emotion, and Social Attitudes: The Education of ‘Challenging’ Pupils Marie Caslin Epilogue: Attitudes and Actions David Bolt

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'This lively, well-written book deserves a wide audience of students, academics, and professionals because it advances disability studies to the next level and is a reflection of the maturing scholarship of the discipline. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, March 2015

'This lively, well-written book deserves a wide audience of students, academics, and professionals because it advances disability studies to the next level and is a reflection of the maturing scholarship of the discipline. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, March 2015 Changing Social Attitudes toward Disability is a fascinating edited volume with contributions from 15 authors, each presenting a well-written and thought-provoking insight into their academic world. The book's greatest strength is giving an academic reader an opportunity to gain flashes of light and insights from multiple perspectives, all of which are relevant to the task of changing social attitudes toward disability. - Anne Collis, Barod Community Interest Company and School of Social Science, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

'This lively, well-written book deserves a wide audience of students, academics, and professionals because it advances disability studies to the next level and is a reflection of the maturing scholarship of the discipline. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, March 2015 ""Changing Social Attitudes toward Disability is a fascinating edited volume with contributions from 15 authors, each presenting a well-written and thought-provoking insight into their academic world. The book’s greatest strength is giving an academic reader an opportunity to gain flashes of light and insights from multiple perspectives, all of which are relevant to the task of changing social attitudes toward disability."" - Anne Collis, Barod Community Interest Company and School of Social Science, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

Author Information

David Bolt is Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is a co-editor of the book series Literary Disability Studies, founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. He is also co-editor of the book The Madwoman and the Blindman (The Ohio State University Press) and author of The Metanarrative of Blindness (University of Michigan Press). Dr Bolt is an editorial board member of both Disability & Society and the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness.

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