Abnormality and Normality : : The Mothering of Thalidomide Children /

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Roskies, Ethel,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1972
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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