Download or read book Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History written by Herbert C. Covey and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help to develop a social history on disabilities by providing a multidisciplinary overview of images of people with disabilities in Western history; promoting the exchange of cross-disciplinary information on disabled people from art, literature, original data, and historical works; filling the gap in our understanding of how disabled people were viewed prior to modern history; illustrating how art and literature can be used to understand how disabled people were perceived in their respective times; and showing how historical factors shape some of our current perceptions about disability.