April 2: FDR and disability
Paper on Freaks due at 11 am today. We will discuss FDR and disability and also watch excerpts from Warm Springs in class.
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Read: 1) Nielsen, The New Disability History, pp. 131-156 (all of ch. 7, for e-book users) 2) In The New Disability History: Susan Burch, “Reading between the Signs: Defending Deaf Culture in Early...
View ArticleApril 9: Education and access in the mid-twentieth century
Read: 1) Pelka, What We Have Done, ch. 1, 3, pp. 30-47, 61-76 2) Mary Tremblay, “Going Back to Civvy Street: A Historical Account of the Impact of the Everest and Jennings Wheelchair for Canadian World...
View ArticleApril 11: Lives in institutions
These readings focus on the experiences of people in institutions, primarily those forcibly placed there, as well as the deinstitutionalization movement that sought to integrate people with...
View ArticleApril 16: Independent living
Read: Pelka, What We Have Done, part of ch. 8 and ch. 10-11, pp. 151-156, 183-226 Please choose one of the following questions: 1) Select at least two different examples from Pelka and discuss: what...
View ArticleApril 18: Disability rights
Read: Pelka, part of ch. 13 and ch. 14, 20-21, pp. 246-253, 261-282, 355-396 Please answer one of the following questions: 1) Pelka discusses a variety of disability rights campaigns in these chapters....
View ArticleApril 23: The ADA
Read: 1) Longmore, Why I Burned My Book, ch. 13: “Why I Burned My Book,” pp. 230-261 2) Pelka, What We Have Done, ch. 24-25, 35, pp. 397-419, 429-433, 439-451, 548-555 Answer one of the following...
View ArticleApril 25: Disability culture(s)
Read: 1) Longmore, Why I Burned My Book, ch. 11: “The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture,” 215-224 2) Joseph N. Straus, “Autism as Culture” in The Disability Studies Reader,...
View ArticleApril 30: What is a life worth?
Read: 1) Peter Singer, “Taking Life: Humans,” excerpted from Practical Ethics, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 1993), read through “Not Justifying Involuntary Euthanasia” (Blackboard) 2) Paul...
View ArticleMay 2: Prosthetics, cyborgs, and passing
Read: Optional: Elizabeth Haiken, “Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics,” in Artificial Parts, Practical Lives, pp. 171-198 (Blackboard) 1) R. A. R. Edwards, “‘Hearing Aids Are...
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