Hi Philip
To read about classical times I recommend "The eye of the beholder" by Robert Garland. (although in the UK it's just out of print I picked up a copy in the remander section.
Apart from the above - there were organisations which took the social models (although a bit backward nowadays...) one of them was the National League of the Blind and Disabled.
I found a reference to another group while searching in the British Library who had meetings in the late 19th Century. Unfortunately it was destroyed (possibly by bombing in the second world war).
There is an interesting book (published in 1910) by George Meek (with an introduction by H.G.Wells) called "The Bath-chair man).
Keith
On Wed, 3 May 2000 10:09:50 +0000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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
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Keith
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