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A Peculiar Fitness: Occupation, Health, and Ability at a 20th-century Psychiatric Hospital (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Disability Wisdom for the Covid-19 Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies into disability in the past often on the physical fabric of the body—sometimes, to the exclusion of the social and emotional dimensions of living with it. This paper examines the tensions between ability, health, and work among attendants ( nurses) at the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane at the turn...