Disability and revelation: lessons learned and flying squirrels -- Learning to love, loving to learn: Mike and the clown faces -- Inclusion, exclusion, and other matters of the heart: the story of Nan -- Disabling prejudice: Aunt Celie and the marble cake -- Lessons in patois: learning to be Jamaican -- A father's proud moment: the day my daughter became a gifted Samaritan -- Recapturing the spirit of caring: Uncle, Brownie, and sausage biscuits -- Eugenics, old and new: Mensa and the Human genome project -- Eugenics revisited: Buck versus Bell and The bell curve -- Old texts, disabilities, and the persistent argument: for whom the bell curves -- Different voices of advocacy: Helen Keller and Burton Blatt -- A place or no place for disabilities: Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's eugenics, and visions of utopian perfection -- The polio vaccine research and children with disabilities: sacrifices for the miracle -- Disability and the need for a romantic science: Darwin's last child -- Words of understanding, concepts of inclusiveness: the wisdom of Margaret Mead -- The question of differential advocacy: Laura Bridgman -- Disabilities and the challenges of equality: looking backward, looking forward -- Diversity and disability: individuality and mental retardation.
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