Tussen familie en instelling? Een analyse van de huishoudtrajecten van doven in Oost-Vlaanderen, 1750-1950

Disability scholars assume a social segregation process for persons with disabilities in the nineteenth century. In pre-industrial times, disabled persons were considered the main responsibility of family and kin. When traditional kinship ties failed and individualism increased in the nineteenth century, the responsibility had to be taken over by institutions. Because of the difficulties in identifying people with an impairment in historical sources and the time-consuming nature of life course data collection, this segregation hypothesis has never been empirically tested. Reconstructing the ho... Mehr ...