1st Edition

Disabled Children Contested Caring, 1850–1979

By Anne Borsay Copyright 2012
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.

    Introduction: Disabled Children – Contested Caring, Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale; Chapter 1 Club Feet and Charity: Children at the House of Charity, Soho, 1848–1914, Pat Starkey; Chapter 2 Insanity, Family and Community in Late-Victorian Britain, Amy Rebok Rosenthal; Chapter 3 The Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Care of Sick and Disabled Children in the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1850–1950, Steven Thompson; Chapter 4 The Question of Oralism and the Experiences of Deaf Children, 1880–1914, Mike Mantin; Chapter 5 Exploring Patient Experience In An Australian Institution For Children With Learning Disabilities, 1887–1933, Lee-Ann Monk, Corinne Manning; Chapter 6 From Representation to Experience: Disability in the British Advice Literature for Parents, 1890–1980, Anne Borsay; Chapter 7 Treating Children with Nonpulmonary Tuberculosis in Sweden: Apelviken, c. 1900–30, Staffan Förhammar, Marie C. Nelson; Chapter 8 Health Visiting and Disability Issues in England Before 1948, Pamela Dale; Chapter 9 Spanish Health Services and Polio Epidemics in the Twentieth Century: the ‘Discovery’ of a New Group of Disabled People, 1920–70, José Martínez-Pérez, María Isabel Porras, María José Báguena, Rosa Ballester; Chapter 10 Cured by Kindness? Child Guidance Services during the Second World War, Sue Wheatcroft; Chapter 11 Education, Training and Social Competence: Special Education in Glasgow Since 1945, Angela Turner; Chapter 12 Hyperactivity and American History, 1957–Present: Challenges to and Opportunities for Understanding, Matthew Smith;

    Biography

    Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale