Writing Disability History: Problems, perspectives and sources
Writing Disability History: Problems, perspectives and sources
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书写残疾历史:问题、观点和来源
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1999
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Elizabeth Bredberg
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Elizabeth Bredberg
This paper discusses current trends in writing disability and identifies problems inherent in the prevalent focus on history of institutional treatment of impairment and disability, both in their validity as history and in their lack of contribution to the emancipatory dimension of disability studies. It is suggested that a broader view of disability history might be achieved by examination of other perspectives regarding disability than the institutional and identify two other perspectives, vernacular and experiential. The source material of these is often quite unlike that of institutional history, and identifies some potential risks in their interpretation. It suggests that investigators of history identify the perspectives present in the sources that they use as a means of reducing the risk of interpretive fallacies. The potential contribution of microhistory is also discussed.