Ethnology and Disability History : Claes G. Olsson: Omsorg och kontroll. En handikapphistorisk studie 1750–1930. Föreställningar och levnadsförhållanden. Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, Umeå universitet 2010. 314 pp. Ill. English summary.Diss.

• Claes G. Olsson’s dissertation, the title of which means “Care and control: A study in disability history 1750–1930”, is a profound study that points out a direction for ethnology in the field of disability history. Olsson shows that ethnology, with its methodological and theoretical approaches, has something vital to add to this multidisciplinary research field. But it is also a dissertation in which the reverse occurs, it also provides ethnology with important perspectives on how to approach research issues concerning people with disabilities. In this way Olsson’s thesis is a good start for an ethnology that is making a place for itself in the disability studies field.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

Keyword

disability

disability history

ethnology

care

Health and society

Hälsa och samhälle

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rec (subject category)