A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

by Bill Hughes

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and - with the rise of Christianity - good to be good to. It examines the place and role of disabled people in the moral economy of the successive cultures that have constituted 'Western civilisation'.

This book is the story of disability as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367174200
• ISBN13: 9780367174200
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"