05002nam 2200625 450 991081739120332120230617012942.01-4833-6264-7(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 disabilitiesCareHistoryChildren with disabilitiesEducation.Inclusive education.Children with disabilitiesCareHistory.371.9Smith J. David1944-1084364Paparchontis KathyMiller Tracy E.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817391203321In search of better angels4035684UNINA