Disability and monstrosity: further comments.

Hanoch Livneh

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Disability Rights and Representation Medicine, History, and Philosophy Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport

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The author discusses possible explanations for stereotypical and negative reactions toward physically disabled persons in literature and society. Cited are examples of physical deformity, animalism, and monstrosity. The reminder of mortality and fallibility produced by disability is considered.

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1913Totem and Taboo 1909Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy 2013The Image and Appearance of the Human Body 1959Feral Children and Autistic Children 1972Societal rehabilitation: Changing society's attitudes toward the physically and mentally disabled.1980Disability and monstrosity: a look at literary distortions of handicapping conditions.

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