Disability histories (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Re-Membering the Past : Reflections on Disability Histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis -- Part 1. Family, Community, and Daily Life. Part introduction and guiding questions -- Disability, Dependency, and the Family in the Early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Thomas Cameron's "Pure and Guileless Life," 1806-1870 : Affection and Developmental Disability in a North Carolina Family / Penny L. Richards -- Parents and Professionals : Parents' Reflections on Professionals, the Support System, and the Family in the Twentieth-Century United States / Allison C. Carey -- Historical Perceptions of Autism in Brazil : Professional Treatment, Family Advocacy, and Autistic Pride, 1943-2010 / Pamela Block and Fátima Gonçalves Cavalcante -- Negotiating Disability : Mobilization and Organization among Landmine Survivors in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Uganda / Herbert Muyinda -- pt. 2. Cultural Histories. Part introduction and guiding questions ---
Disability Things : Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700-2010 / Katherine Ott -- The Contergan Scandal : Media, Medicine, and Thalidomide in 1960s West Germany / Elsbeth Bösl -- "Lest We Forget" : Disabled Veterans and the Politics of War Remembrance in the United States / John M. Kinder -- pt. 3. Bodies, Medicine, and Contested Knowledge. Part introduction and guiding questions -- Smallpox, Disability, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century France : Rewriting Paradigms from a New Epidemic Script / Catherine Kudlick -- "Unfit for Ordinary Purposes" : Disability, Slaves, and Decision Making in the Antebellum American South / Dea H. Boster -- Rehabilitation Staged : How Soviet Doctors "Cured" Disability in the Second World War / Frances L. Bernstein -- The Curious Case of the "Professional Hemophiliac" : Medicine, Disability, and the Contested Value of Normality in the United States, 1940-2010 / Stephen Pemberton --
Border Disorders : Mental Illness, Feminist Metaphor, and the Disordered Female Psyche in the Twentieth-Century United States / Susan K. Cahn -- pt. 4. Citizenship and Belonging. Part introduction and guiding questions -- The Paradox of Social Progress : The Deaf Cultural Community in France and the Ideals of the Third Republic at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Anne Quartararo -- Property, Disability, and the Making of the Incompetent Citizen in the United States, 1860s-1940s / Kim E. Nielsen -- "Salvaging the Negro" : Race, Rehabilitation, and the Body Politic in World War I America, 1917-1924 / Paul R. D. Lawrie -- Engendering and Regendering Disability : Gender and Disability Activism in Postwar America / Audra Jennings -- Self-Advocacy and Blind Activists : The Origins of the Disability Rights Movement in Twentieth-Century India / Jagdish Chander