Hi there. I would recommend the following:
The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Davis, Lennard J., Pp. 75-109
Stone, Deborah, The Disabled State, Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1984.
Grob, Gerald, N., The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's
Mentally Ill, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
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> My query concerns the development of thinking on disability which
> brings us to the present day.
> I recall in the 60's in the UK that disabled peoples' groups
> conformed with the individual tragedy model and set up some local
> clubs as charities. There was little understanding of the social
> model. Their state and status was not questioned by themselves. (I
> speak of local experience only). Perhaps if charity was the only
> option seen to be available it was a case of that or nothing. Going
> back further there was the village idiot. Perhaps things have
> changed quite a bit? Yet discrimination remains.
>
> If anyone could direct me to useful sources of reading on the history
> of disability, UK & beyond please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Philip Scullion
> Senior Lecturer
> Nursing and Midwifery
> School of Health and Social Sciences
> Coventry University
> Priory Street
> Coventry, CV1 5FB
> Tel 024 76887969 Direct
> or 024 76887928 Reception
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