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Historia de la discapacidad e historia de las emociones: reflexiones sobre Gran Bretaña en el siglo XVIII
David Turner 
Asclepio, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Start page: 146
Swansea University Author:
David Turner
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DOI (Published version): 10.3989/asclepio.2016.18
Abstract
This article examines ways in which insights from the history of emotions can shed light on disability in the past, via a case study of Britain in the eighteenth century. Theories of the 'passions', 'sentiments' and 'affections' were used to describe the causes of impai...
| Published in: | Asclepio |
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| ISSN: | 0210-4466 1988-3102 |
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2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31451 |
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This article examines ways in which insights from the history of emotions can shed light on disability in the past, via a case study of Britain in the eighteenth century. Theories of the 'passions', 'sentiments' and 'affections' were used to describe the causes of impairment and to prescribe appropriate responses. Although disability was frequently represented as a condition that caused misery or aroused the pity of others, a close reading of a variety of sources from medical texts to newspapers and periodicals reveals that the degree of 'unhappiness' associated with disability depended on timing, context and the symbolic significance of certain impairments. |
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| Keywords: |
disability, emotion, pity, sympathy, happiness |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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2 |
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146 |