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" Damned for their difference : "
Jan Branson and Don Miller.
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950853
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b705223
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Branson, Jan.
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Damned for their difference : : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history /\ Jan Branson and Don Miller.
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Washington, D.C. :: Gallaudet,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) :: illustrations
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1563681676
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1563681161
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1563681188
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1563681218
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9781563681165
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9781563681189
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9781563681219
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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I: The cultural construction of "the disables": a historical overview -- 1. The cosmological tyranny of science: from the new philosophy to eugenics -- 2. The domestication of difference: the classification, segregation, and institutionalization of unreason -- II: The cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled": a sociological history of discrimination -- 3. The new philosophy, sign language, and the search for the perfect language in the seventeenth century -- 4. The formalization of deaf education and the cultural construction of "the deaf" and "deafness" in the eighteenth century -- 5. The "great confinement" of deaf people through education in the nineteenth century -- 6. The alienation and individuation of deaf people: eugenics and pure oralism in the late-nineteenth century -- 7. Cages of reason--bureaucratization and the education of deaf people in the twentieth century: teacher training, therapy, and technology -- 8. The denial of deafness in the late-twentieth century: the surgical violence of medicine and the symbolic violence of mainstreaming -- 9. Ethno-nationalism and linguistic imperialism: the state and the limits of change in the battles for human rights for deaf people.
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Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.
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Deaf-- Great Britain.
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Deaf.
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Child.
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Sourds-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Sourds.
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Deaf.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Physical Impairments.
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Cochlear Implants.
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Doven.
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Decision Making.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.9/08162
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| LC Classification
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HV2380.B685 2002
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71.70bcl
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Miller, Don.
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