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Apr 28, 2024
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MDHM 851 - Introduction to the History and Historigraphy of Disability3 credits
An exploration of ideas about disability, humanity and human difference in Europe and the United States. After a brief survey of disability from ancient times to the Enlightenment in the Old World, we will examine the colonial period in America, when disabled persons faced a mixture of suspicion and acceptance in small and isolated communities, followed by a discussion attitudes and practices in the nineteenth century, when disabled persons confronted isolation and institutionalization arising in part from industrialization, and continue with the early twentieth-century nightmares of eugenic hysteria and sterilization, which grew in part out of distortions of Enlightenment ideas of statistical norms and progress. We will conclude with a brief introduction to the disability rights movement of the last generation.
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