| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deaf.
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Deaf. |
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Deaf -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
| Indexed Term |
"Multi-User" |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Don.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Branson, Jan. Damned for their difference. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet, ©2002 (DLC) 2001056888 (OCoLC)48588191 |
| ISBN |
1563681714 (electronic book) |
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9781563681714 (electronic book) |
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1563681188 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781563681189 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1563681218 (softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781563681219 (softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1563681161 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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