Abnormality and Normality : : The Mothering of Thalidomide Children / / Ethel Roskies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Roskies, Ethel,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Tables --; Chapter 1. The Thalidomide Background --; Chapter 2. The Research Study --; Chapter 3. The Social Normalization of Abnormality --; Chapter 4. Abnormality within Normality: The Child in the Family Environment --; Chapter 5. The Normification of Abnormality: The Prostheses --; Chapter 6. Summing Up --; APPENDIXES, GLOSSARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, and INDEXES --; Appendix A --; Appendix B --; Glossary of Medical Terms --; Bibliography --; Chronological Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501743146; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501743146
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ethel Roskies.

This case study of a highly unusual form of maternity is a valuable addition to the literature on handicapped or deviant children. It is an account of how mothers who took part in a government-sponsored habilitation program in Montreal perceived the process of bearing and rearing (or deciding not to rear) a child with congenital thalidomide-induced deformities. Professor Roskies traces how the biological, psychological, and social factors interacted—and changed over time—as she sought to conceptualize and describe a new way of understanding the elements involved in the mothering of a handicapped child. She raises a number of disturbing questions about our customary ways of viewing this form of mother–child relationship.