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UNINA9910817391203321 |
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Smith J. David <1944-> |
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In search of better angels : stories of disability in the human family / / J. David Smith ; indexer, Kathy Paparchontis ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller |
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Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, Inc., , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Children with disabilities - Education |
Inclusive education |
Children with disabilities - Care - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Power and Epiphany�Reflections on the Personal and Cultural Value of Disabilities""; ""The Value of Disability""; ""Part I - My Own Journey""; ""Chapter 1 - Disability and Revelation: Lessons Learned and Flying Squirrels""; ""Chapter 2 - Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: Mike and the Clown Faces""; ""Chapter 3 - Inclusion, Exclusion, and other Matters of the Heart: The Story of Nan""; ""Chapter 4 - Disabling Prejudice: Aunt Celie and the Marble Cake"" |
""Chapter 5 - Lessons in Patois: Learning to be a Jamaican""""Chapter 6 - A Father�s Proud Moment: The Day My Daughter became a Gifted Samaritan""; ""Chapter 7 - Recapturing the Spirit of Caring: Uncle, Brownie, and Sausage Biscuits""; ""Part I: Questions to Ponder""; ""Part II - Disability, Science, and Pseudoscience""; ""Chapter 8 - Eugenics, Old and New: Mensa and the Human Genome Project""; ""The Tragedy of Involuntary Sterilization""; ""Eugenics: A Continuing Legacy""; ""The Human Genome Project and Mental Retardation""; ""Mental Retardation, “Felt Necessities,� and Ethics"" |
""Chapter 9 - Eugenics Revisited: Buck versus Bell and The Bell Curve""""Chapter 10 - Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For |
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Whom the Bell Curves""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 12 - A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disney�s Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs�s Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection"" |
""Tarzan and the Triumph of Heredity""""Burroughs on Genetic Predetermination""; ""Burroughs on Breeding for Utopia""; ""Utopia and Disabilities""; ""Chapter 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 Disabilities""; ""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""""Chapter 14 - Disability and the Need for a Romantic Science: Darwin�s Last Child""; ""Chapter 15 - Words of Understanding, Concepts of Inclusiveness: The Wisdom of Margaret Mead""; ""Chapter 16 - The Question of Differential Advocacy: Laura Bridgman""; ""Constructing the Disability of Mental Retardation""; ""Disability and Invisibility""; ""Laura Bridgman: The First Miracle""; ""Chapter 17 - Disabilities and the Challenges of Equality: Looking Backward, Looking Forward""; ""Looking Backward""; ""Looking Forward"" |
""Chapter 18 - Diversity and Disability: Individuality and Mental Retardation"" |
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This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them. |
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UNINA9910139497903321 |
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Autore |
Watt Ronald G |
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Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt |
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Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009 |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Spiritualists - United States |
Ex-church members - United States |
Ex-church members - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Latter Day Saint converts - England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"On the Lord's business" -- Early life in Britain -- Journey to America and Nauvoo -- Mission to Britain -- Across the wide Atlantic and on to Zion -- Life and times in Utah : politics in the territory -- Reporter for Zion -- Deseret alphabet -- Family and life in Salt Lake City -- A man for all seasons : intellectual activities -- Sermons of obedience : traveling with Brigham Young and to Britain -- Life-changing events : leaving the office, businessman -- Spiritual wanderings : apostasy and spiritualism -- Family and farm life in Davis County. |
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Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as |
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