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This book pursues analyses of disability’s deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of body-mind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, \u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age \u003c\/i\u003eexplores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752985403665,"sku":"NGR9781350436671","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350436674.jpg?v=1751336297"},{"product_id":"narrative-prosthesis-book-david-t-mitchell-9780472067480","title":"Narrative Prosthesis","description":"Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49795331064081,"sku":"GOR009404573","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51247873851665,"sku":"GOR012885325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472067486.jpg?v=1790685536"},{"product_id":"biopolitics-of-disability-book-david-t-mitchell-9780472052714","title":"The Biopolitics of Disability","description":"Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip\/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50114025619729,"sku":"CIN0472052713G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51379975029009,"sku":"GOR011920362","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472052713.jpg?v=1790422790"},{"product_id":"body-and-physical-difference-book-david-t-mitchell-9780472066599","title":"The Body and Physical Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curiously neglected within the humanities. \u003ci\u003eThe Body and Physical Difference\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by exploring the fantasies and fictions that have crystallized around conceptions of physical and cognitive difference. Based on the premise that the significance of disabilities in culture and the arts has been culturally vexed as well as historically erased, the collection probes our society's pathological investment in human variability and \"aberrancy.\" The contributors demonstrate how definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, bodily integrity, individuality, citizenship, and morality--all terms that define the very essence of what it means to be human. \u003cbr\u003eThe book provides a provocative range of topics and perspectives: the absence of physical \"otherness\" in Ancient Greece, the depiction of the female invalid in Victorian literature, the production of tragic innocence in British and American telethons, the reconstruction of Civil War amputees, and disability as the aesthetic basis for definitions of expendable life within the modern eugenics movement. 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