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Author:   Michael Rembis (Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo (SUNY)) ,  Catherine J. Kudlick (Director of Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability and Professor of History, San Francisco State University) ,  Kim Nielsen (Professor of Disability Studies, University of Toledo)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.014kg
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9780190234959

ISBN 10:   0190234954
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   15 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen Part I. CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS 1. The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography Kim E. Nielsen 2. Disability History and Greco-Roman Antiquity C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose 3. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages Irina Metzler 4. Disability in the Pre-modern Arab World Sara Scalenghe 5. Disability and the History of Eugenics Michael Rembis 6. Social History of Medicine and Disability History Catherine J. Kudlick 7. Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability History Katherine Ott 8. Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability History Bess Williamson 9. Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian Penny Richards and Susan Burch Part II. WORK 10. Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain Daniel Blackie 11. Disability and Work in South Asia and the United Kingdom Jane Buckingham 12. Disability and Work in British West Africa Jeff Grischow 13. Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United States Paul Lawrie 14. Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United States Audra Jennings Part III. INSTITUTIONS 15. Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century Europe Pieter Vierestraete and Ylva Soederfeldt 16. Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia and New Zealand Catharine Coleborne 17. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New Zealand Angela McCarthy 18. Institutions for People with Disabilities in North America Steven Noll Part IV. REPRESENTATIONS 19. Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century England David M. Turner 20. Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum Stage Jenifer L. Barclay 21. Polio and Disability in Cold War Hungary Dora Vargha 22. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North America Leslie J. Reagan 23. Disability in Modern Chinese Cinema Steven L. Riep Part V. MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITIES 24. Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf Communities Joseph J. Murray 25. The Disability Rights Movement in the United States Lindsey Patterson 26. The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United States Regina Kunzel 27. Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of War David A. Gerber Index

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Michael Rembis is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. He has written or edited many books and articles, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories (2014); and Disabling Domesticity (2016). Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012 after two decades at the University of California, Davis. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France. Kim E. Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo, where she also teaches courses in History and Women's & Gender Studies. She is the author of A Disability History of the United States (2012).

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