The Routledge History of Disability

ISBN-13: 9780367659998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 514 str.

Roy Hanes; Ivan Brown; Nancy E. Hansen

Opis

This volume explores shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, chapters discuss topics such as developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman period and the systematic killing of disabled children in Nazi Germany

O autorze

Roy Hanes is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada. He was a founding member of the Canadian Disability Studies Association and is well known for his disability rights activism.

Ivan Brown was Head of the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a founding editor of the Journal on Developmental Disabilities.

Nancy E. Hansen is Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and past president of the Canadian Disability Studies Association.