title: [Between fear and pity: some socio-historical aspects of disability].
abstract: Disability, like sickness, is not merely a physical condition, the state of an individual's body. It is also a collective status that relates the disabled person to Society. We analyze the evolution of this social status and we see how the perception of this phenomenon has changed over the ages. From this historical overview, the continuity as well as the discontinuity in changes can be observed, the changes that affect the institutions, values and conceptions having to do with disability.
authors.affiliation: Health-Disease-Society, CNRS-MIRE, Paris, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Disert
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D011639:Public Opinion; D012924:Social Conditions
vernacular_title: Entre la peur et la pitié: quelques aspects socio-historiques de l'infirmité.