TY  - BOOK
AU  - Branson,Jan
AU  - Miller,Don
TI  - Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People As Disabled
SN  - 9781563681714
AV  - HV2380 
U1  - 305.9/08162 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Washington, D. C.
PB  - Gallaudet University Press
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Deaf-Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE The Cultural Construction of "the Disabled": A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- The Cosmological Tyranny of Science: From the New Philosophy to Eugenics -- The Domestication of Difference: The Classification, Segregation, and Institutionalization of Unreason -- PART TWO The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as "Disabled": A Sociological History of Discrimination -- Introduction -- The New Philosophy, Sign Language, and the Search for the Perfect Language in the Seventeenth Century -- The Formalization of Deaf Education and the Cultural Construction of "the Deaf" and "Deafness" in the Eighteenth Century -- The "Great Confinement" of Deaf People through Education in the Nineteenth Century -- The Alienation and Individuation of Deaf People: Eugenics and Pure Oralism in the Late-Nineteenth Century -- Cages of Reason-Bureaucratization and the Education of Deaf People in the Twentieth Century: Teacher Training, Therapy, and Technology -- The Denial of Deafness in the Late-Twentieth Century: The Surgical Violence of Medicine and the Symbolic Violence of Mainstreaming -- Ethno-Nationalism and Linguistic Imperialism: The State and the Limits of Change in the Battles for Human Rights for Deaf People -- Appendix: The 1881 Survey of Methods Used in British Schools for the Deaf -- Bibliography -- Index
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