So long as they grow out of it: Comics, the discourse of developmental normalcy, and disability

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-88

  Squier, Susan M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal; Alterity; Anomaly; Autism; Canguilhem; Comics; Development; Disability; Epilepsy; Ethics; Graphicfiction; Impairment; Levinas; Medicalmodel; Moralmodel; Norm; Normalcy; Pathology; Socialmodel; Universalism

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HEALTH; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CARTOONS AS TOPIC; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISABLED CHILDREN; HEALTH; HUMANS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 42249100315     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-008-9057-1     Document Type: Article

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