In search of better angels : stories of disability in the human family /
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London :
Corwin Press,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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.