Dyslexia - The Government of Reading

The diagnosis of 'Dyslexia' and the medical problematisation of reading difficulties were almost unknown one hundred years ago, yet today the British Dyslexia Association estimates that up to ten per cent of the UK population may have some form of dyslexia, with numbers in the United States estimated to be as high as twenty per cent. The Government of Reading investigates how this problematisation developed and how a diagnostic category was shaped in response to this.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Bio-Politics, Normalcy and the Numerical Plotting of the Population 3. Governing Readers from Limitation to Proliferation 4. Reading Difficulties Become a Medical Concern 5. The Technological Operation of Congenital Word-Blindness: Marking Some Differences as More Deserving Than Others 6. Psychological Explanations of Congenital Word-Blindness 7. The Problem of Producing Literate Subjects: Education and Specific Reading Difficulties 8. Conclusion

About the author

Tom Campbell is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK, where he is a member of The Bauman Institute, Centre for Health, Technologies and Social Practice and Centre for Disability Studies.

Summary

The diagnosis of 'Dyslexia' and the medical problematisation of reading difficulties were almost unknown one hundred years ago, yet today the British Dyslexia Association estimates that up to ten per cent of the UK population may have some form of dyslexia, with numbers in the United States estimated to be as high as twenty per cent. The Government of Reading investigates how this problematisation developed and how a diagnostic category was shaped in response to this.

Product details

• Authors: T Campbell, T. Campbell
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349452217
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45221-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 13 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 321 g
• Illustrations: VII, 242 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Psychology, Educational psychology, Social & ethical issues, History of Science, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Education—Psychology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, History of Psychology, Reading;dyslexia;psychology;education;Nation