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Impaired Children in Eighteenth-century England

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Social History of Medicine, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Start page: hkw128

Swansea University Author: David Turner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/shm/hkw128

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People in the early modern period had long been fascinated by ‘monstrous births’ as portents, prodigies and scientific marvels, but during the eighteenth century attention began to turn to the ‘problem’ of children growing up with physical or sensory impairments. During the second half of the centur...

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Published in: Social History of Medicine
ISSN: 0951-631X 1477-4666
Published: 2017
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