In search of better angels : stories of disability in the human family / / J. David Smith ; indexer, Kathy Paparchontis ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller

• Autore: Smith J. David <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, Inc., , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.9
• Soggetto topico: Children with disabilities - Education; Inclusive education; Children with disabilities - Care - History
• Persona (resp. second.): PaparchontisKathy; MillerTracy E.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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, “Felt 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 “Institutionalizedâ€? 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them.
• Titolo autorizzato: In search of better angels
• ISBN: 1-4833-6264-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817391203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II