The Oxford handbook of disability history / edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rembis, Michael A., 1970- editor.

Kudlick, Catherine Jean, editor.

Nielsen, Kim E., editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks.

[Oxford handbooks]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Disabilities.

Persons with Disabilities--history.

Medical Subjects:

Persons with Disabilities--history.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Disability history

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, and the Arab world. This Handbook is unique among other disability history texts in that it engages simultaneously in methodological and historiographic debates and in a further articulation and analysis of the lived experiences of disabled people.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen

Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen

Disability history and Greco-Roman antiquity / C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose

Intellectual disability in the European Middle Ages / Irina Metzler

Disability in the premodern Arab world / Sara Scalenghe

Disability and the history of eugenics / Michael Rembis

Social history of medicine and disability history / Catherine Kudlick

Material culture, technology, and the body in disability history / Katherine Ott

Designing objects and spaces : a modern disability history / Bess Williamson

Documents, ethics, and the disability historian / Penny L. Richards and Susan Burch

Part II. Work. Disability and work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain / Daniel Blackie

Disability and work in South Asia and the United Kingdom / Jane Buckingham

Disability and work in British West Africa / Jeff D. Grischow

Race, work, and disability in Progressive era United States / Paul Lawrie

Organized labor and disability in post-World War II United States / Audra Jennings

Part III. Institutions. Deaf-blindness and the institutionalization of special education in nineteenth-century Europe / Pieter Verstraete and Ylva Söderfeldt

Disability and madness in colonial asylum records in Australia and New Zealand / Catherine Coleborne

Madness, transnationalism, and emotions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New Zealand / Angela McCarthy

Institutions for people with disabilities in North America / Steven Noll

Part IV. Representations. Picturing disability in eighteenth-century England / David M. Turner

Disability, race, and gender on the stage in Antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barlcay

Polio and disability in Cold War Hungary / Dora Vargha

Monstrous births, birth defects, unusual anatomy, and disability in Europe and North America / Leslie J. Reagan

Disability in modern Chinese cinema / Steven L. Riep

Part V. Movements and identities. Transnational interconnections in nineteenth-century Western deaf communities / Joseph J. Murray

The disability rights movement in the United States / Lindsey Patterson

The rise of gay rights and the disavowal of disability in the United States / Regina Kunzel

Disabled veterans and the wounds of war / David A. Gerber.

Notes:

Series from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disability History Association Outstanding Book Award winner, 2019

Other Format:

Online version: Oxford handbook of disability history.

ISBN:

9780190234959

0190234954

OCLC:

1012697500