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

Disability history

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

xiv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.