Constructing the Disabled Child in England, 1800–1860¹

Imperfect bodies

“…It might thus be suggested that an imperfect body was not necessarily socially or economically liminal. 49 Furthermore, Dale and Borsay's collection of essays exploring experiential and definitional concepts of childhood disability have raised the profile of this subject further. 50 Their volume begins by linking general concerns about childhood health with an emerging professional interest in the disabled child in the mid-nineteenth century.…”

Impaired Children in Eighteenth-century England

“…101 By the nineteenth century, parishes invested a good deal in subsidising the labour market in order to supplement the earnings of impaired young people. 102 The philanthropic movement towards educating blind and deaf children that gathered pace from the 1760s similarly aspired to provide them with the means to achieve 'useful' employment.…”

“…Nor is there much evidence that people with impairments were grouped together as 'disabled', or that impaired children in the eighteenth century shared the 'special needs' status bestowed on disabled children in modern times. 22…”

G652 Treading in the footsteps of the past. ‘Now walks like others’ – a film

“…We can find no direct evidence for the 'moral condemnation' of the poor which is related by contemporary social historians and believe it to be insufficiently nuanced. 3 Aims To explore the history of botox, how it works and clinical applications Methods Literature review Results History Botulism, now extremely rare, is a potentially life-threatening neuroparalytic syndrome resulting from the action of a neurotoxin of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In 1820, Justinus Kerner gave the first description of clinical botulism based on clinical observations of local outbreaks of 'sausage poisoning'.…”