Disability history: A Foucauldian perspective.

Nederlandse samenvatting English summary Dankwoord Table of Contents List of illustrations 1. General introduction: Foucault, disability and history 1.1. On the use and misuse of history for the life of people with disabilities 1.2. Disability history: An international field of study?! 1.3. Michel Foucault and the history of disability 1.4. History for the present or history of the present 1.5. Outline of the doctoral thesis 2. Towards a disabling past 2.1. New disability history: American perspectives 2.2. Decline of traditional critique 2.3. From oppression to the government of disability 2.4. From ‘traditional’ to ‘effective’ history 2.5. The experience of a dis-abling past 3. Doing disability history and the notion of ‘limit-experience’ 3.1. Disability history and experience 3.2. Visualizing disability 3.3. Experience, impairment and critical disability studies 3.4. Foucault, limit-experiences and the writing of history 3.5. Experiencing visualizations and the blinded eye 3.6. conclusions 4. The taming of disability 4.1. Cross-fertilization between Michel Foucault and William Shakespeare 4.2. Thesis: Great expectations or complete civilization 4.3. Antithesis: Medical incurability 4.4. Synthesis: Phrenological educability 4.5. Conclusions 5. The activation of difference 5.1. Begging and the deprivation of the hand 5.2. Chance and the value of impairment 5.3. «L’oeil du Baron» and the visitor of the poor 5.4. Private societies, home visits and the discovery of personal needs 5.5. The disabled eye and the professional 5.6. Conclusions 6. Savage solitude: The problematization of disability at the turn of the eighteenth century 6.1. Problemization of solitude/disability 6.2. Historical intersections 6.2.1. Solitude is the infirmary of the mind 6.2.2. Solitude is an enemy 6.2.3. Solitary savages 6.2.4. Disabled solitudes 6.3. The pedagogical value of solitude 6.3.1. Robinson’s island 6.3.2. Ferrying persons with disabilities to society 6.4. Conclusions 7. Conclusions: Dis-abling history, the other and the care of the self Appendix A: Future research proposal Bibliography Epiloguestatus: publishe