M Miles
Biographic Data
| ID | 12117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Miles |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Miles |
| SIGNATURE | MILES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Midlands, UK. |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8404-9448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
« Attrape-moi si tu peux ! »: Proposition méthodologique de capture de logiques institutionnelles en matière d’engagement social au sein du sport professionnel français
La création de Structures Dédiées à l’Engagement Social (SDES) telles que les fondations et/ou les fonds de dotation par les clubs professionnels français pour développer leur stratégie sociétale est une pratique en voie d’institutionnalisation. Ce phénomène questionne le(s) rôle(s) de ces SDES, raison pour laquelle nous mobilisons le concept de logiques institutionnelles (LI), emprunté à la théorie néo-institutionnelle, afin de montrer comment l…
Social and Educational Responses to Mental Retardation in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh: Historical and Modern Reflections
South Asian languages and literature offer many terms for mental retardation (MR), intellectual disability or cognitive impairment, with a range of concepts and meanings through three millennia of history. Responses to mental retardation are illustrated by stories from religious, medical, legal and psychological literature, translated from Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Bengali and Tamil. These responses concern life stages and events such as pregnancy…
Segregated we stand? The mutilated Greeks' debate at Persepolis, 330 BC
As Alexander reached Persepolis in January 330 BC, he encountered a large group of newly released Greek captives who had been severely mutilated during Persian enslavement. Alexander agreed to aid their resettlement. The men debated whether to return to Greece with money in hand and disperse to their old families, who might be shocked by their appearance, or to stay as a mutually supportive group and receive benefits in Persia with their local pa…
Children with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida in East Africa: Can family and community resources improve the odds
Hydrocephalus and spina bifida are life-threatening conditions that often result in severe disabilities. Risks are much reduced by immediate surgery and careful management, but neither has been available for most of the sub-Saharan African population. This paper traces the growth of solutions and some socio-cultural resources that historically have supported family and community care for children with severe disabilities, mainly in Tanzania, and …
Formal and informal disability resources for Afghan reconstruction
After 23 years of turbulence the number of disabled Afghans is unknown and formal services are minimal. The great majority live with whatever resources they find in themselves and their families, the normal pattern throughout history. Informal help and some cultural resources of Afghan history and Muslim teaching are noted in this paper, together with some common negative views. UN agencies and NGOs have made efforts to promote an adapted Communi…
Studying Responses to Disability in South Asian Histories: Approaches personal, prakrital and pragmatical
Approaches and pitfalls are described in the nascent field of Asian disability historiography, focusing on mental retardation (learning difficulties) and blindness (visual impairments) in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. More substantial evidence has surfaced for study of responses to disability and disabled persons than for understanding historical concepts of disability. Critiques are considered of Orientalist information-gathering, of over-depe…
Including Disabled Children in Indian Schools, 1790s–1890s: Innovations of Educational Approach and Technique
Since Indian antiquity there is documentation of educational practice that sometimes favoured the inclusion of children with impairments. European schools in India, starting c. 1605, brought little recorded innovation until the late 18th century. Admission of a weak‐minded boy to the Madras Military Orphan Asylum by Andrew Bell in the 1790s suggests a new openness in European‐led schools, with later notes of disabled children being casually integ…
Disability on a Different Model: Glimpses of an Asian heritage
The paper reviews common uses of models and terminology, then sketches a few social responses to disablement in historical Zoroastrian, Jaina and Daoist philosophies. Accompanying a discussion of the 'merits of uselessness', Chuang-tzu's holistic social model is reconstructed. A Buddhist tale of 'hunchback Khujjutara' suggests that karma may usefully be seen as an educational, rather than retributive force. Contested histories of blind Japanese a…
Signing in the Seraglio: Mutes, dwarfs and jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500-1700
Deaf people, known as 'mutes', worked in the Turkish Ottoman court from the fifteenth to the twentieth century in various roles along with dwarfs and other entertainers. Their signing system became popular, was used regularly by hearing people including successive Sultans, and was reportedly capable of expressing ideas of whatever complexity. The Ottoman court mutes' early achievements, at a time when deaf education and employment was barely cons…
Presidential Address. Becoming answerable for what we see
Blindness in South and East Asia: Using History to Inform Development
Professional and family responses to mental retardation in East Bengal and Bangladesh, 1770s–1990s
Pakistan's microcephalic chuas of Shah Daulah: Cursed, clamped or cherished
Community, Individual or Information Development? Dilemmas of concept and culture in South Asian disability planning
From the 1820s to the present, disability planning in South Asia has faced hard choices, compounded by the submersion of indigenous concepts in well-intentioned western exports of welfare ideologies and eurocentric social sciences. Cultural imperialism continues, with western evangelists insisting that South Asian disability development be seen in terms of human rights and community-based rehabilitation, regardless of the actual strengths and wea…
Disability in an Eastern Religious Context: Historical perspectives
Disability in the past of eastern religions has attracted little formal or comparative scrutiny. A range is sketched here of historical data, viewpoints and attitudes on disability in Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, which continue to influence the thoughts of half the world's population. Approaches for more detailed studies are suggested, moving towards such global measures for understanding, remediating and accommodating disability as would be mor…
Concepts of Mental Retardation in Pakistan: Toward Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives
This paper reviews concepts of mental retardation in Pakistan against an historical Asian and Islamic background, and discusses some hazards of Western cultural hegemony in this field. Evidence is presented from official documents, attitude surveys, a service development project and experiences in teacher training and family counselling. Families presenting their ‘different’ child usually offer comments on appearance, behaviour, capacity to learn…
Disability and Afghan Reconstruction: Some Policy Issues
Conflicts within Afghanistan have severely disrupted the few formal rehabilitation services for disabled Afghans. The unsettled situation, together with prevailing socio-economic underdevelopment, poses massive problems for reconstruction. Realistically, Afghans with disabilities will have to manage their lives largely with traditional skills and community resources for many years to come. Their indigenous resources may be supplemented with moder…
Information-based rehabilitation for third world disability
Handicapped children in Pakistan: Targeting information needs
Journal Article Handicapped children in Pakistan: targeting information needs Get access M Miles M Miles Mental Health CentrePeshawar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Policy and Planning, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 347–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/2.4.347 Published: 01 December 1987
Commentaries
Disability on a Different Model: Glimpses of an Asian heritage
The paper reviews common uses of models and terminology, then sketches a few social responses to disablement in historical Zoroastrian, Jaina and Daoist philosophies. Accompanying a discussion of the 'merits of uselessness', Chuang-tzu's holistic social model is reconstructed. A Buddhist tale of 'hunchback Khujjutara' suggests that karma may usefully be seen as an educational, rather than retributive force. Contested histories of blind Japanese a…
Signing in the Seraglio: Mutes, dwarfs and jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500-1700
Deaf people, known as 'mutes', worked in the Turkish Ottoman court from the fifteenth to the twentieth century in various roles along with dwarfs and other entertainers. Their signing system became popular, was used regularly by hearing people including successive Sultans, and was reportedly capable of expressing ideas of whatever complexity. The Ottoman court mutes' early achievements, at a time when deaf education and employment was barely cons…
Community, Individual or Information Development? Dilemmas of concept and culture in South Asian disability planning
From the 1820s to the present, disability planning in South Asia has faced hard choices, compounded by the submersion of indigenous concepts in well-intentioned western exports of welfare ideologies and eurocentric social sciences. Cultural imperialism continues, with western evangelists insisting that South Asian disability development be seen in terms of human rights and community-based rehabilitation, regardless of the actual strengths and wea…
Disability in an Eastern Religious Context: Historical perspectives
Disability in the past of eastern religions has attracted little formal or comparative scrutiny. A range is sketched here of historical data, viewpoints and attitudes on disability in Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, which continue to influence the thoughts of half the world's population. Approaches for more detailed studies are suggested, moving towards such global measures for understanding, remediating and accommodating disability as would be mor…
Studying Responses to Disability in South Asian Histories: Approaches personal, prakrital and pragmatical
Approaches and pitfalls are described in the nascent field of Asian disability historiography, focusing on mental retardation (learning difficulties) and blindness (visual impairments) in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. More substantial evidence has surfaced for study of responses to disability and disabled persons than for understanding historical concepts of disability. Critiques are considered of Orientalist information-gathering, of over-depe…
Including Disabled Children in Indian Schools, 1790s–1890s: Innovations of Educational Approach and Technique
Since Indian antiquity there is documentation of educational practice that sometimes favoured the inclusion of children with impairments. European schools in India, starting c. 1605, brought little recorded innovation until the late 18th century. Admission of a weak‐minded boy to the Madras Military Orphan Asylum by Andrew Bell in the 1790s suggests a new openness in European‐led schools, with later notes of disabled children being casually integ…
Presidential Address. Becoming answerable for what we see
Professional and family responses to mental retardation in East Bengal and Bangladesh, 1770s–1990s
Information-based rehabilitation for third world disability
Handicapped children in Pakistan: Targeting information needs
Journal Article Handicapped children in Pakistan: targeting information needs Get access M Miles M Miles Mental Health CentrePeshawar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Policy and Planning, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 347–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/2.4.347 Published: 01 December 1987
Commentaries
Handicapped children in Pakistan: Targeting information needs
Journal Article Handicapped children in Pakistan: targeting information needs Get access M Miles M Miles Mental Health CentrePeshawar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Policy and Planning, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 347–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/2.4.347 Published: 01 December 1987
Information-based rehabilitation for third world disability
Disability and Afghan Reconstruction: Some Policy Issues
Conflicts within Afghanistan have severely disrupted the few formal rehabilitation services for disabled Afghans. The unsettled situation, together with prevailing socio-economic underdevelopment, poses massive problems for reconstruction. Realistically, Afghans with disabilities will have to manage their lives largely with traditional skills and community resources for many years to come. Their indigenous resources may be supplemented with moder…
Concepts of Mental Retardation in Pakistan: Toward Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives
This paper reviews concepts of mental retardation in Pakistan against an historical Asian and Islamic background, and discusses some hazards of Western cultural hegemony in this field. Evidence is presented from official documents, attitude surveys, a service development project and experiences in teacher training and family counselling. Families presenting their ‘different’ child usually offer comments on appearance, behaviour, capacity to learn…
Disability in an Eastern Religious Context: Historical perspectives
Disability in the past of eastern religions has attracted little formal or comparative scrutiny. A range is sketched here of historical data, viewpoints and attitudes on disability in Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, which continue to influence the thoughts of half the world's population. Approaches for more detailed studies are suggested, moving towards such global measures for understanding, remediating and accommodating disability as would be mor…
Pakistan's microcephalic chuas of Shah Daulah: Cursed, clamped or cherished
Community, Individual or Information Development? Dilemmas of concept and culture in South Asian disability planning
From the 1820s to the present, disability planning in South Asia has faced hard choices, compounded by the submersion of indigenous concepts in well-intentioned western exports of welfare ideologies and eurocentric social sciences. Cultural imperialism continues, with western evangelists insisting that South Asian disability development be seen in terms of human rights and community-based rehabilitation, regardless of the actual strengths and wea…
Professional and family responses to mental retardation in East Bengal and Bangladesh, 1770s–1990s
Blindness in South and East Asia: Using History to Inform Development
Disability on a Different Model: Glimpses of an Asian heritage
The paper reviews common uses of models and terminology, then sketches a few social responses to disablement in historical Zoroastrian, Jaina and Daoist philosophies. Accompanying a discussion of the 'merits of uselessness', Chuang-tzu's holistic social model is reconstructed. A Buddhist tale of 'hunchback Khujjutara' suggests that karma may usefully be seen as an educational, rather than retributive force. Contested histories of blind Japanese a…
Signing in the Seraglio: Mutes, dwarfs and jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500-1700
Deaf people, known as 'mutes', worked in the Turkish Ottoman court from the fifteenth to the twentieth century in various roles along with dwarfs and other entertainers. Their signing system became popular, was used regularly by hearing people including successive Sultans, and was reportedly capable of expressing ideas of whatever complexity. The Ottoman court mutes' early achievements, at a time when deaf education and employment was barely cons…
Presidential Address. Becoming answerable for what we see
Studying Responses to Disability in South Asian Histories: Approaches personal, prakrital and pragmatical
Approaches and pitfalls are described in the nascent field of Asian disability historiography, focusing on mental retardation (learning difficulties) and blindness (visual impairments) in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. More substantial evidence has surfaced for study of responses to disability and disabled persons than for understanding historical concepts of disability. Critiques are considered of Orientalist information-gathering, of over-depe…
Including Disabled Children in Indian Schools, 1790s–1890s: Innovations of Educational Approach and Technique
Since Indian antiquity there is documentation of educational practice that sometimes favoured the inclusion of children with impairments. European schools in India, starting c. 1605, brought little recorded innovation until the late 18th century. Admission of a weak‐minded boy to the Madras Military Orphan Asylum by Andrew Bell in the 1790s suggests a new openness in European‐led schools, with later notes of disabled children being casually integ…
Children with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida in East Africa: Can family and community resources improve the odds
Hydrocephalus and spina bifida are life-threatening conditions that often result in severe disabilities. Risks are much reduced by immediate surgery and careful management, but neither has been available for most of the sub-Saharan African population. This paper traces the growth of solutions and some socio-cultural resources that historically have supported family and community care for children with severe disabilities, mainly in Tanzania, and …
Formal and informal disability resources for Afghan reconstruction
After 23 years of turbulence the number of disabled Afghans is unknown and formal services are minimal. The great majority live with whatever resources they find in themselves and their families, the normal pattern throughout history. Informal help and some cultural resources of Afghan history and Muslim teaching are noted in this paper, together with some common negative views. UN agencies and NGOs have made efforts to promote an adapted Communi…
Segregated we stand? The mutilated Greeks' debate at Persepolis, 330 BC
As Alexander reached Persepolis in January 330 BC, he encountered a large group of newly released Greek captives who had been severely mutilated during Persian enslavement. Alexander agreed to aid their resettlement. The men debated whether to return to Greece with money in hand and disperse to their old families, who might be shocked by their appearance, or to stay as a mutually supportive group and receive benefits in Persia with their local pa…
Social and Educational Responses to Mental Retardation in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh: Historical and Modern Reflections
South Asian languages and literature offer many terms for mental retardation (MR), intellectual disability or cognitive impairment, with a range of concepts and meanings through three millennia of history. Responses to mental retardation are illustrated by stories from religious, medical, legal and psychological literature, translated from Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Bengali and Tamil. These responses concern life stages and events such as pregnancy…
« Attrape-moi si tu peux ! »: Proposition méthodologique de capture de logiques institutionnelles en matière d’engagement social au sein du sport professionnel français
La création de Structures Dédiées à l’Engagement Social (SDES) telles que les fondations et/ou les fonds de dotation par les clubs professionnels français pour développer leur stratégie sociétale est une pratique en voie d’institutionnalisation. Ce phénomène questionne le(s) rôle(s) de ces SDES, raison pour laquelle nous mobilisons le concept de logiques institutionnelles (LI), emprunté à la théorie néo-institutionnelle, afin de montrer comment l…
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