A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity by Bill Hughes

Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

Bill Hughes

364 pages hardcover

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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. It examines ...

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