In Search of Better Angels : Stories of Disability in the Human Family

, by J. David Smith

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ISBN: 9780761938415 | 0761938419
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/30/2003

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This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them.

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction: Power and Epiphany---Reflections on the Personal and Cultural Value of Disabilities

(3)

The Value of Disability

(3)

PART I: MY OWN JOURNEY

(50)

Disability and Revelation: Lessons Learned and Flying Squirrels

(6)

Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: Mike and the Clown Faces

(6)

Inclusion, Exclusion, and Other Matters of the Heart: The Story of Nan

(8)

Disabling Prejudice: Aunt Celie and the Marble Cake

(8)

Lessons in Patois: Learning to Be a Jamaican

(8)

A Father's Proud Moment: The Day My Daughter Became a Gifted Samaritan

(4)

Recapturing the Spirit of Caring: Uncle, Brownie, and Sausage Biscuits

(8)

Questions to Ponder

(2)

PART II: DISABILITY, SCIENCE, AND PSEUDOSCIENCE

(46)

Eugenics, Old and New: Mensa and the Human Genome Project

(10)

The Tragedy of Involuntary Sterilization

(1)

Eugenics: A Continuing Legacy

(4)

The Human Genome Project and Mental Retardation

(1)

Mental Retardation, ``Felt Necessities,'' and Ethics

(4)

Eugenics Revisited: Buck Versus Bell and The Bell Curve

(4)

Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For Whom the Bell Curves

(6)

Different Voices of Advocacy: Helen Keller and Burton Blatt

(6)

Helen Keller: A Magnificent Exception

(1)

Helen Keller and the Parameters of Advocacy

(2)

Burton Blatt's Advocacy: The Golden Rule and Beyond

(1)

Legacies and Challenges

(2)

A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection

(8)

Tarzan and the Triumph of Heredity

(2)

Burroughs on Genetic Predetermination

(3)

Burroughs on Breeding for Utopia

(1)

Utopia and Disabilities

(2)

The Polio Vaccine Research and Children With Disabilities: Sacrifices for the Miracle

(10)

Personal Reflections on Polio

(1)

The Salk Vaccine and ``Institutionalized'' Research

(1)

Feeding Live Polio Virus to Children With Disabilities

(3)

Research and Disabilities: Other Cases

(1)

Claiming a Place of Value for People With Disabilities: The Continuing Struggle

(4)

Questions to Ponder

101

(2)

PART III: DISABILITY IN HISTORICAL AND LITERARY PERSPECTIVES

103

(36)

Disability and the Need for a Romantic Science: Darwin's Last Child

105

(6)

Words of Understanding, Concepts of Inclusiveness: The Wisdom of Margaret Mead

111

(6)

The Question of Differential Advocacy: Laura Bridgman

117

(8)

Constructing the Disability of Mental Retardation

117

(1)

Disability and Invisibility

118

(1)

Laura Bridgman: The First Miracle

119

(6)

Disabilities and the Challenges of Equality: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

125

(6)

Looking Backward

126

(1)

Looking Forward

127

(4)

Diversity and Disability: Individuality and Mental Retardation

131

(8)

A Memory From Ignacy Goldberg

131

(1)

Jack London's ``Told in the Drooling Ward''

132

(3)

The Typology of Mental Retardation

135

(1)

Mental Retardation: Redefining or Disaggregating?

135

(4)

Questions to Ponder

137

(2)

Epilogue: Finding a Voice---The Story of Bill

139

(4)

Index

143

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In Search of Better Angels : Stories of Disability in the Human Family

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