UID:
almahu_9949597345402882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages).
ISBN:
9780691233239
Series Statement:
Princeton scholarship online
Content:
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of lack and loss. 'Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See' explores the case of early modern Catholic Canada under French rule and shows it to be a period rich with alternative understandings of infirmity, disease, and death. Counternarratives to our contemporary assumptions, these early modern stories invite us to creatively imagine ways of living meaningfully with embodied difference today.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780691233222
Language:
English
DOI:
10.23943/princeton/9780691233222.001.0001
URL:
Princeton scholarship online