Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See explores the case of early ...
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See explores the case of early ...
