Disability by David Turner review: A revelatory history of the UK's struggle for disability rights
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Lucy Webster
1d ago· 4 min readenReview
Summary
David Turner's new book "Disability" offers a revelatory history of disability in the UK, tracing the struggle for rights from the 17th century to the present day. The review highlights how the book presents two seemingly contradictory truths: that little has changed for disabled people (with historical parallels to modern benefit systems like PIP) and that everything has changed (from asylum closures to prosthetic advances to legal rights). The book includes powerful personal stories that deserve wider recognition.
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bskyDisability by David Turner review: A revelatory history of the UK's struggle for disability rightstheguardian.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledYou could take two outwardly contradictory lessons from the historian David Turner's new book on disability in the UK.
First, that alarmingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern age
And second, that absolutely everything has changed - from the closing of asylums to the advent of prosthetics to the eventual, belated enshrining
This study of the struggle for rights includes incredible personal stories that we should all be more familiar with
