How has our understanding and treatment of disability evolved in Western culture? How has it been represented and perceived in different social and cultural con

How has our understanding and treatment of disability evolved in Western culture? How has it been represented and perceived in different social and cultural con

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacte

The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces th

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first