Date:
Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Laurel Daen, MHS-NEH Fellow
Disability emerged in the Early Republic as a meaningful bureaucratic, legal, institutional, and cultural category. It was rooted in ideas about work, social worth, and economic independence and increasingly determined by the expert discourse of medicine. This project examines this development and considers its consequences for the new nation and its citizens.
See also: Outside of Harvard