Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979

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Disabled Children

Contested Caring, 1850–1979

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Edited by Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440087

Subjects:: History, History of Medicine

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This volume of essays explores the varied, but distinctive, experiences of disabled children. The authors start from the premise that the care, and control, of such individuals was historically governed by factors that differentiated their experiences from those of 'normal' children and 'disabled' adults. Attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children allows re-examination of the key historical debates. The care of disabled children was always contested and this became more important over time. From the middle of the nineteenth century families were increasingly encouraged, even coerced, to engage with approved health and education services. Such provision helped to forge the identities and determine the experiences of disabled children. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on practice in a number of different countries.

"'This is an impressively wide-ranging volume - thematically, chronologically, and geographically. It significantly adds to our understanding of the complex history of the care of disabled children and will be a necessary starting point for future research in the field'."

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Contested Caring, 1850–1979

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Disabled Children – Contested Caring
pp 1-14

1 - Club Feet and Charity: Children at the House of Charity, Soho, 1848–1914
pp 15-28

2 - Insanity, Family and Community in Late-Victorian Britain
pp 29-42

3 - The Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Care of Sick and Disabled Children in the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1850–1950
pp 43-58

4 - The Question of Oralism and the Experiences of Deaf Children, 1880–1914
pp 59-72

5 - Exploring Patient Experience in an Australian Institution for Children with Learning Disabilities, 1887–1933
pp 73-86

6 - From Representation to Experience: Disability in the British Advice Literature for Parents, 1890–1980
pp 87-102

7 - Treating Children with Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Sweden: Apelviken, c. 1900–30
pp 103-116

8 - Health Visiting and Disability Issues in England before 1948
pp 117-130

9 - Spanish Health Services and Polio Epidemics in the Twentieth Century: The ‘Discovery’ of a New Group of Disabled People, 1920–70
pp 131-144

10 - Cured by Kindness? Child Guidance Services during the Second World War
pp 145-158

11 - Education, Training and Social Competence: Special Education in Glasgow since 1945
pp 159-172

12 - Hyperactivity and American History, 1957–Present: Challenges to and Opportunities for Understanding
pp 173-182

Notes
pp 183-228

Index
pp 229-235

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