Cross-Wired: Communication, Interface, Locality (Transcript) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719070376 ISBN 13: 9780719070372

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. -- .

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About the Authors

Kerstin Mey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, both at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Simon Yuill is an artist working with software systems and is a Researcher in the School of Television and Imaging.

Kerstin Mey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, both at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Simon Yuill is an artist working with software systems and is a Researcher in the School of Television and Imaging.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719070376
• ISBN 13: 9780719070372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Yuill Simon, Mey Kerstin