05035nam 2200637 450 991048030520332120170822145140.01-4833-6264-7(CKB)3710000000456233(EBL)1651831(OCoLC)922907807(SSID)ssj0001530809(PQKBManifestationID)12537132(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530809(PQKBWorkID)11532636(PQKB)11585660(MiAaPQ)EBC1994224(EXLCZ)99371000000045623320150818h20032003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn search of better angels stories of disability in the human family /J. David Smith ; indexer, Kathy Paparchontis ; cover designer, Tracy E. MillerThousand Oaks, California :Corwin Press, Inc.,2003.©20031 online resource (161 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7619-3840-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Power and Epiphanyâ€?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 Fatherâ€?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, â€œFelt Necessities,â€? and Ethics""""Chapter 9 - Eugenics Revisited: Buck versus Bell and The Bell Curve""""Chapter 10 - Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For 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 Blattâ€?s Advocacy: The Golden Rule and beyond""; ""Legacies and Challenges""; ""Chapter 12 - A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disneyâ€?s Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughsâ€?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 â€œInstitutionalizedâ€? 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: Darwinâ€?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"" This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them. Children with disabilitiesEducationInclusive educationChildren with disabilitiesCareHistoryElectronic books.Children with disabilitiesEducation.Inclusive education.Children with disabilitiesCareHistory.371.9Smith J. David1944-950525Paparchontis KathyMiller Tracy E.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480305203321In search of better angels2149165UNINA