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By Herbert C. Covey. 305 pp. Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1998. $62.95. ISBN 0-398-06837-2.

"Gimp!" "Cripple!" The critical epithet often betokens the scorn and fear that disability provokes in the onlooker. Indeed, the human perception of illness is based as much on the dreaded functional consequences of the sequelae of disease as on mortality. An investigation of the historical change of such perceptions thus is fundamental to our understanding of medicine and disease in society.

Dr. Covey, a member of the Colorado Department of Human Services and of the College of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado in Boulder, has amassed a great deal of information in this book regarding the history of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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