TY - BOOK ID - 77916289 TI - Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History PY - 1998 SN - 0398082596 9780398082598 0398068372 9780398068370 0398068380 9780398068387 PB - Springfield : Charles C Thomas, DB - UniCat KW - People with disabilities -- History. KW - People with disabilities in art. KW - People with disabilities in literature. KW - People with disabilities KW - People with disabilities in art KW - People with disabilities in literature KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Disabilities KW - Handicapped in literature KW - Physically handicapped in literature KW - Handicapped in art KW - Physically handicapped in art KW - Cripples KW - Disabled KW - Disabled people KW - Disabled persons KW - Handicapped KW - Handicapped people KW - Individuals with disabilities KW - People with physical disabilities KW - Persons with disabilities KW - Physically challenged people KW - Physically disabled people KW - Physically handicapped KW - Persons KW - Sociology of disability KW - History KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77916289 AB - In recent years, there has been an abundance of literature written on the subject of people with disabilities. However, there has been a noticeable paucity of information available on the historical aspects of disabled persons. This book will help to develop a social history on disabilities by providing a multidisciplinary overview of images of people with disabilities in Western history; promoting the exchange of cross-disciplinary information on disabled people from art, literature, original data, and historical works; filling the gap in our understanding of how disabled people were viewed p ER -