The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
by Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, Kim Nielsen
1st Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780190234959 |
| eText ISBN | 9780190234966 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 552 |
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, 1st Edition, examines disability outside traditional medical settings and clinical cures. The handbook investigates how disabled individuals shaped fundamental concepts of identity, community, citizenship, and normality across diverse historical eras.
The volume addresses lived experiences across a global geographic range, spanning from ancient Greece to British West Africa. Contributions explore themes of labor, institutional life, and cultural depictions, including disability on the American antebellum stage.
Comprising twenty-seven articles written by thirty experts, the publication gathers research across the field. These chapters document how disabled people lived differently in the world across various societies and periods.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography
Chapter 2: Disability History and Greco-Roman Antiquity
Chapter 3: Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages
Chapter 4: Disability in the Pre-modern Arab World
Chapter 5: Disability and the History of Eugenics
Chapter 6: Social History of Medicine and Disability History
Chapter 7: Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability History
Chapter 8: Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability History
Chapter 9: Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian
Chapter 10: Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in Britain
Chapter 11: Disability and Work in South Asia and the United Kingdom
Chapter 12: Disability and Work in British West Africa
Chapter 13: Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United States
Chapter 14: Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United States
Chapter 15: Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 16: Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 17: Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 18: Institutions for People with Disabilities in North America
Chapter 19: Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Chapter 20: Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum Stage
Chapter 21: Polio and Disability in Cold War Hungary
Chapter 22: Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North America
Chapter 23: Disability in Modern Chinese Cinema
Chapter 24: Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf Communities
Chapter 25: The Disability Rights Movement in the United States
Chapter 26: The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United States
Chapter 27: Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of War
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