Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century - New Library Database
This database is collection of primary source material documenting the history of disability in society. It consists of more than 600,000 digitised pages drawn from personal papers, archives and medical libraries.
It chronicles how individuals were classified and treated, illustrating the many forms of institutional discrimination, political exclusion, and social control under which disabled individuals struggled.
Source materials in this collection include:
- personal memoirs
- records of treatments
- methods of education
- forms of remediation
- reports & proceedings of disability organisations
The publishers Gale have produced a useful guide and background to the resource describing definitions and collections that have been digitised.
Examples of documents from the database include:
- Defects in the Moral Treatment of Insanity in Public Lunatic Asylums of Ireland with Suggestions for Their Remedy and Some Observations on the English Asylums
- Consumption: Its Prevention and Cure by the Water Treatment: With Advice Concerning Haemorrhage from the Lungs, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, and Sore Throat
- Electrical Psychology: Its Theoretical and Practical Principles
- The Prevention of Blindness (Red Cross)
- Lectures on Epilepsy, Pain, Paralysis, and Certain Other Disorders of the Nervous System
- Disabled Persons in Government Employment, Statement Showing the Numbers of Registered Disabled Persons in Government Employment in Great Britain on 1st October 1952
- Study of Abnormal Man in Connection with Establishing Laboratories to Investigate Criminal, Pauper, and Defective Classes
- The Treatment of Mental Disorders, Ancient and Modern: In Commemoration of the Centenary of the Building of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum, 1845
Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century can be accessed via the Library Catalogue
Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán
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