TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snyder,Sharon L.
AU  - Mitchell,David T.
TI  - Cultural locations of disability
SN  - 9780226767307 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV1568 .S69 2006eb
U1  - 305.9/08 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sociology of disability
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Government policy
KW  - People with disabilities in motion pictures
KW  - Disabled Persons
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - Social Science
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - People with Disabilities
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Lichamelijk gehandicapten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Stigmatisering (sociale wetenschappen)
KW  - Behinderung
KW  - swd
KW  - Eugenik
KW  - Sozialethik
KW  - ადამიანები შეზღუდული შესაძლებლობებით
KW  - ინვალიდები - სოციალური პირობები
KW  - ინვალიდები - მთავრობის პოლიტიკა
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index; Cultural locations of disability -- Masquerades of impairment : charity as a confidence game -- Subnormal nation : the making of a U.S. disability minority -- The eugenic Atlantic : disability and the making of an international science -- After the panopticon : contemporary institutions as documentary subject -- Body genres and disability sensations : the challenge of the new disability documentary cinema -- Compulsory feral-ization
N2  - In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed d
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