In search of better angels : stories of disability in the human family /

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Hovedforfatter: Smith, J. David, 1944-
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Sprog:English
Udgivet: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Corwin Press, c2003.
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245 1 0 |a In search of better angels :  |b stories of disability in the human family /  |c J. David Smith. 
246 3 0 |a Stories of disability in the human family 
260 |a Thousand Oaks, Calif. ;  |a London :  |b Corwin Press,  |c c2003. 
300 |a xi, 146 p. ;  |c 26 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |a Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Power and Epiphany - Reflections on the Personal and Cultural Value of Disabilities -- Part I: My Own Journey -- 1. Disability and Revelation: Lessons Learned and Flying Squirrels -- 2. Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: Mike and the Clown Faces -- 3. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Other Matters of the Heart: The Story of Nan -- 4. Disabling Prejudice: Aunt Celie and the Marble Cake -- 5. Lessons in Patois: Learning to Be a Jamaican -- 6. A Father's Proud Moment: The Day My Daughter Became a Gifted Samaritan -- 7. Recapturing the Spirit of Caring: Uncle, Brownie, and Sausage Biscuits -- Part I: Questions to Ponder -- Part II: Disability, Science, and Pseudoscience -- 8. Eugenics, Old and New: Mensa and the Human Genome Project -- The Tragedy of Involuntary Sterilization Eugenics -- Eugenics: A Continuing Legacy -- The Human Genome Project and Mental Retardation --  
505 0 0 |a Mental Retardation, "Felt Necessities," and Ethics -- 9. Euguenics Revisited: Buck Versus Bell and The Bell Curve -- 10. Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For Whom the Bell Curves -- 11. Different Voices of Advocacy: Helen Keller and Burton Blatt -- Helen Keller: A Magnificent Exception -- Helen Keller and the Parameters of Advocacy -- Burton Blatt's Advocacy: The Golden Rule and Beyond -- Legacies and Challenges -- 12. A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection -- Tarzan and the Triumph of Heredity -- Burroughs on Genetic Predetermination -- Burroughs on Breeding for Utopia -- Utopia and Disabilities -- 13. The Polio Vaccine Research and Children With Disabilities: Sacrifices for the Miracle -- Personal Reflections on Polio -- The Salk Vaccine and "Institutionalized" Research -- Feeding Live Polio Virus to Children With Disabilites -- Research and Disabilities: Other Cases --  
505 0 0 |a Claiming a Place of Value for People With Disabilities: The Continuing Struggle -- Part II: Questions to Ponder -- Part III: Disability in Historical and Literary Perspectives -- 14. Disability and the Need for Romantic Science: Darwin's Last Child -- 15. Words of Understanding, Concepts of Inclusiveness: The Wisdom of Margaret Mead -- 16. The Question of Differential Advocacy: Laura Bridgman -- Constructing the Disability of Mental Retardation -- Disability and Invisibility -- Laura Bridgman: The First Miracle -- 17. Disabilities and the Challenges of Equality: Looking Backward, Looking Forward -- Looking Backward -- Looking Forward -- 18. Diversity and Disability: Individuality and Mental Retardation -- A Memory From Ignacy Goldberg -- Jack London's "Told in the Drooling Ward" -- The Typology of Mental Retardation -- Mental Retardation: Redefining or Disaggregating? -- Part III: Questions to Ponder -- Epilogue: Finding a Voice - The Story of Bill -- Index. 
650 0 |a Children with disabilities  |x Education. 
650 0 |a Inclusive education. 
650 0 |a Children with disabilities  |x Care  |x History. 
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