Madness Disability and Social Exclusion

<p>A unique work that brings together a number of specialist disciplines, such as archaeology, anthropology, disability studies and psychiatry to create a new perspective on social and physical exclusion from society. A range of evidence throws light on such things as the causes and consequences of social exclusion stigma, marginality and dangerousness.<br>It is an important text that breaks down traditional academic disciplinary boundaries and brings a much needed comparative approach to the subject.</p> Introduction, Jane Hubert; Chapter 1 Official madness, Robert A. Brooks; Chapter 2 Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?, Tony Waldron; Chapter 3 Did they take sugar? The use of skeletal evidence in the study of disability in past populations, Charlotte A. Roberts; Chapter 4 Developmental defects and disability, Eileen M. Murphy; Chapter 5 Two examples of disability in the Levant, Jonathan N. Tubb; Chapter 6 Disability, madness, and social exclusion in Dynastic Egypt, David Jeffreys, John Tait; Chapter 7 Skeletons in wells, John K. Papadopoulos; Chapter 8 Madness in the body politic, Sandra Blakely; Chapter 9 Impaired and inspired, Lois Bragg; Chapter 10 ‘Strange notions’, Ruth Gilbert; Chapter 11 The logic of killing disabled children, Patrick J. Devlieger; Chapter 12 Leprosy and social exclusion in Nepal, Jeanette Hyland; Chapter 13 Between two worlds, Kathryn Hollins; Chapter 14 The social, individual and moral consequences of physical exclusion in long-stay institutions, Jane Hubert; Chapter 15 Exclusion from funerary rituals and mourning, Oyepeju Raji, Sheila Hollins; Chapter 16 Social exclusion in northern Nigeria, Murray Last;