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Masquerades of Impairment: Charity as a Confidence Game

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IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND

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2007

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David Mitchell

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Mitchell, D.T. & Snyder, S.L. (2006). Masquerades of Impairment: Charity as a Confidence Game. Leviathan, 8(1), 35-60. Herman Melville's representation of disabled bodies in The Confidence-Man delineates a nineteenth-century economics of anatomy, charity, and social role. Jacksonian America provided an important venue for practices that were founded on empirical observation: craniometry, phrenology, palmistry, psychology, and physiognomy. All these sciences of the surface named external body features as reliable signs by which the identity of a person could be fixed and known.

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