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Compassion, pity and physical disability: the value of difference in heterogeneous relations

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2015
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Title
Compassion, pity and physical disability: the value of difference in heterogeneous relations
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2015
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702015000300007
Pubmed ID
Authors

Reni Aparecida Barsaglini, Emília Carvalho Leitão Biato

Abstract

Feelings of compassion and pity for physical disability are analyzed by assessing abnormal bodies in the West and interpretations of the sufferings of the Other. The State will target this body as well as wartime and industrial mutilations. In the nineteenth century, tolerance, compassion and body equality were required, becoming imbued with hierarchizing representations and practices of bodily perfection submitting deviations to intervention. Such ambiguities mobilize sentiments at the confluence of the individual/collective and the natural/socio-cultural and can transmute into virtue or technology of power. The exegesis of suffering may result in generalizations and platitudes whereas valorizing the singular and occult sides of experience favors universalization of human dignity in heterogeneous relations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 1 25%
Student > Postgraduate 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 1 25%
Psychology 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2015.
All research outputs
#6,783,328
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#659
of 1,628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#72,256
of 276,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#17
of 30 outputs
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