Article ID: CBB001552749

Compassion, Pity and Physical Disability: The Value of Difference in Heterogeneous Relations (2015)

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Barsaglini, Reni Aparecida (Author)
Biato, Emília Carvalho Leitão (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 22, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 781-796


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

Feelings of compassion and pity for physical disability are analyzed by assessing abnormal bodies in the West and interpretations of the sufferings of the Other. The State will target this body as well as wartime and industrial mutilations. In the nineteenth century, tolerance, compassion and body equality were required, becoming imbued with hierarchizing representations and practices of bodily perfection submitting deviations to intervention. Such ambiguities mobilize sentiments at the confluence of the individual/collective and the natural/socio-cultural and can transmute into virtue or technology of power. The exegesis of suffering may result in generalizations and platitudes whereas valorizing the singular and occult sides of experience favors universalization of human dignity in heterogeneous relations.

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Authors & Contributors
Boster, Dea H.
Byrom, Bradley Allen
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Dale, Pamela
Hamraie, Aimi
Harris, John M.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of Medical Biography
Medical History
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publishers
Routledge
University of Iowa
Cambridge University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
University of Georgia Press
University of Illinois Press
Concepts
Medicine and society
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Medicine and government
Health care
Public health
Slavery
People
Audouard, Maxence
Maclean, Charles,
Reeves, James E.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Brazil
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Germany
Institutions
Charité (Hospital: Berlin)
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