Social Psychology of Childhood Disability
‘Some years ago I read the phrase "the spontaneous revulsion to the deformed". The phrase seemed to be both potent and provocative: Was there a spontaneous revulsion to disabilities in children or did such conditions evoke a more compassionate response?’
Originally published in 1978, the problems of the disabled were no longer confined to the medical and educational professionals, but had become th...
‘Some years ago I read the phrase "the spontaneous revulsion to the deformed". The phrase seemed to be both potent and provocative: Was there a spontaneous revulsion to disabilities in children or did such conditions evoke a more compassionate response?’
Originally published in 1978, the problems of the disabled were no longer confined to the medical and educational professionals, but had become th...
