Disability History on the Bookshelf

Recent Publications as of March 2011

The DHA would like to congratulate the authors of these recent (2007-2011) publications in disability history. Let us know about mistakes or omissions (please email Phil Ferguson). List compiled by Penny L. Richards.

  • Ablard, Jonathan D., Madness in Buenos Aires:  Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880 --1983 (Ohio University Press, 2008)
  • Abel, Emily K., Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusions:  A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
  • Abel, Emily K.., and Subramanian, Saskia, After the Cure:  The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU Press, 2008).
  • Armus, Diego, La ciudad Impura:  Salud, Tuberculosis, y Cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870 --1950 (Edhasa, 2007).
  • Appignanesi, Lisa.  Mad, Bad, and Sad:  A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present (Virago 2008).
  • Avalos, Hector;  Melcher, Sarah J.; and Schipper, Jeremy (Eds.), This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies (Society of biblical Literature, 2007).
  • Bailey, Steve, Athlete First:  A History of the Paralympic Movement (John Wiley, 2008). 
  • Bartra, Roger, Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in the Golden Age of Spain (University of Wales Press, 2008).
  • Baynton, Douglas C.; Bergey, Jean; & Gannon, Jack, Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History. A PBS Companion Volume (Gallaudet University Press, 2007).
  • Bewley, Thomas,  Madness to Mental Illness:  A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Cromwell Press, 2008). 
  • Bösl, Elsbeth, Anne Klein, and Anne Waldschmidt, eds. Disability History:  Konstruktionen von Behinderung in der Geschichte (Bielefeld 2010).
  • Brintlinger, Angela and Vinitsky, Ilya (Eds.), Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2007).
  • Bivins, Roberta and Pickstone, John v. (Eds.), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (Palgrave, 2007).
  • Blackshaw, Gemma, and Leslie Topp, eds. Madness and Modernity:  Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900 (Lund Humphries 2009).
  • Brauer, Fae and Callen, Anthea (Eds.), Art, Sex, and Eugenics:  Corpus Delecti (Ashgate, 2008).
  • Brimmer, Gabriela, Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices (UPNE/Brandeis University Press, 2009).
  • Bronstein, Jamie L., Caught in the Machinery:  Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Stanford University Press, 2008).
  • Burnham, John C., Accident Prone:  A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
  • Burch, Susan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Vols. 1-3 (Facts on File, 2009).
  • Burch, Susan and Joyner, Hannah, Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
  • Carey, Allison. On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in 20th Century America (Temple University, 2009).
  • Chambers, Paul.  Bedlam:  London's Hospital for the Mad (Ian Allan 2009).
  • Connolly, Cynthia A., Saving Sickly Children:  The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970  (Rutgers University Press,  2008).
  • Creamer, Deborah B., Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Davis, Gayle, "The Cruel Madness of Love":  Sex, Syphilis, and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (rodopi, 2008).
  • Demaitre, Luke.  Leprosy in Premodern Medicine:  A Malady of the Whole Body (Johns Hopkins University Press 2007).
  • Demuynck, B., Hulmiddelen met een Geschiedenis (1800-1985): Doven-en Blindeninstituut Spermalie (Brugge:  Archief Charles-Louis Carton, 2009) [Educational Tools with a History -- Deaf and blind Institute Spermalie]
  • Deutsch, Nathaniel.  Inventing America's Worst Family:  Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael (University of California Press 2009).
  • Dowbiggin, Ian, The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2008).
  • Durbach, Nadia, Spectacle of Deformity:  Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (University of California Press, 2009).
  • Fairchild, Amy, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove, Searching Eyes:  Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America (University of California Press 2007).
  • Fassin, Didier, When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa (trans. by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro), (University of California Press, 2007).
  • Feinstein, Sheryl, and D'Errico, Nicole C.  Tanzanian Women in their Own Words:  Stories of Disability and Illness (Lexington Books 2009).
  • Floyd, Barbara L. From Institutions to Independence:  A History of People with Disabilities in Northwest Ohio (University of Toledo Press 2011).
  • Furdell, Elizabeth Lane, Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin (Brill, 2009).
  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, Staring: How We Look (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Goldstein, Jan.  Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy:  The Case of Nanette Leroux (Princeton University Press 2009).
  • Greider, Kathleen J., Much Madness is Divinest Sense:  Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering (Pilgrim Press, 2007).
  • Gross, Anne K. The Polio Journals: Lessons from My Mother (Diversity Matters Press 2011).
  • Hardy, Donald E., The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction (University of South Carolina Press, 2007).
  • Hartsock, Chad, Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts:  The Use of Physical Features in Characterization (Brill, 2008).
  • Hoefer, Bernardette.  Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Ashgate 2009).
  • Holland, Alison.  Excess and Transgression in Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction:  The Discourse of Madness (Ashgate 2009).
  • Humphrey, David C., Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas Wilson Ward, 1807-1872 (Texas State Historical Association, 2009).
  • Hutchison, Iain, A History of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Edwin Mellen, 2007).
  • Kamionkowski, S. Tamar, and Wonil Kim, eds.,Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark 2010).
  • Keller, Richard C., Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago University Press, 2007).
  • Krentz, Christopher, Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
  • Lael, Richard L.; Brazos, Barbara; and McMillen, Margot Ford, Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006 (University of Missouri Press, 2007).
  • Lane, Harlan (Ed.), The Deaf Experience: Classics in language and Education (Gallaudet University Press, 2006).
  • Largent, Mark A. Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilizations in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
  • Larsson, Marina, Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War (University of New South Wales, 2009).
  • Lombardo, Paul A. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
  • Manning, Corinne, Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages (University of New South Wales Press, 2008).
  • Maxwell, Anne.  Picture Imperfect:  Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940 (Sussex Academic Press 2008).
  • Mazzio, Carla.  The Inarticulate Renaissance:  Language Trouble in the Age of Eloquence (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008).
  • McDonagh, Patrick, Idiocy: A Cultural History (Liverpool University Press, 2009).
  • McIvor, Arthur, and Johnston, Ronald, Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease In British Coal Mining (Ashgate, 2007).
  • McQueen, Humphrey.  Frameworks of Flesh:  Builders' Labourers Battle for Health and Safety (Ginniderra Press Adelaide 2009).
  • Metzl, Jonathan M.  The Protest Psychosis:  How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press 2010).
  • Millett-Gallant, Ann. The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
  • Monk, Lee-Ann, Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum (Rodopi, 2008).
  • Mooney, Graham, and Reinarz, Johathan (Eds.), Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting (Clio Medica 86) (Rodopi, 2009).
  • Moran, Michelle T., Colonizing Leprosy: IMperialism and teh politics of Public Health in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
  • Nielsen, Kim, Beyond the Miracle Worker:  The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon Press, 2009).
  • Nootens, Thierry, Fous, Prodigues, et Ivrognes: Familles et Deviance a Montreal au XIX siecle (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007).
  • Nourse, Victoria F. In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics (Norton, 2008).
  • O'Connell, Deirdre, The Ballad of Blind Tom: Slave Pianist, America's Lost Musical Genius (Overlook Press, 2009).
  • Oliphant, John. The Early Education of the Blind in Britain, c1790-1900: Institutional Experience in England and Scotland (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007)
  • Park, Maureen.  Art in Madness:  Dr. W. A. F. Browne's Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries (Dumfries & Galloway Health Board 2010).
  • Parle, Julie, States of Mind: Searching for Mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918 (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007).
  • Piddock, Susan, A space of Their own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia, and Tasmania (Springer, 2007).
  • Pieitikainen, Petteri, Neurosis and Modernity:  The Age of Nervousness in Sweden (Brill, 2007).
  • Poore, Carol, Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2007).
  • Prescott, Heather Munro, Student Bodies: The Influence of Student health Services in American Society and Medicine (University of Michigan Press, 2007).
  • Quartararo, Anne T. Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth Century France (Gallaudet University Press, 2008).
  • Reaume, Geoffrey, Lyndhurst: Canada's First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries, 1945-1998 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2007).
  • Reaume, Geoffrey, Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940 (Oxford University University Press, Canada, 2000;  2nd edition, University of Toronto Press, 2009).
  • Reiss, Benjamin, Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
  • Schmidt, Jeremy, Melancholy and the Care of the soul:  Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007).
  • Schmuhl, Hans-Walter, and Ulrike Winkler.  Gewalt in der Körperbehindertenhilfe:  Das Johanna-Helene-Heim in Volmarstein von 1947 bis 1967 (Bielefeld 2010).
  • Schmuhl, Hans-Walter.  Exklusion und Inklusion durch Sprache: Zur Geschichte des Begriffs Behinderung (= IMEW Expertise 11) (Berlin 2010).
  • Schweik, Susan M. The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (New York University Press, 2009).
  • Scull, Andrew.  Hysteria:  The Biography (Oxford University Press 2009).
  • Shorter, Edward, and Healy, David, Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
  • Talley, Colin L.  A History of Multiple Sclerosis (Praeger 2008).
  • Taylor, Steven J. Acts of Conscience: world War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors (Syracuse University Press, 2009).
  • Tuohela, Kirsi.  Huhtikuun Tekstit.  Kolmen Naisen Koettu Ja Kirjoitettu Melankolia 1870-1900 ().  [April Texts:  Three Women Writers Encountering Melacholia 1870-1900]
  • Turda, Marius, and Weindling, Paul (Eds.), Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationaism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 (Central European University Press, 2007).
  • Van Cleve, John Vickery (Ed.), The Deaf History Reader (Gallaudet University Press, 2007).
  • Verstraete, P., and Hellinckx, W. (Eds.), Met een Handicap naar School:  Het Ontstaan en de Ontwikkeling van het Onderwijs aan Kinderen en Jongeren met een Handicap (1750-1970) (Ieper: Stedelijk Onderwijsmuseum, 2009) [With a Disability to School: The Emergence and Development of Educational Initiatives for Children and Youth a Disability (1750-1970)].
  • Wedemeyer-Kolwe, Bernd.  "Verhinderte Gesunde":  Die Geschichte des niedersächsischen Behindertensports (Hannover 2010).
  • Weygand, Zina, The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille (Stanford University Press, 2009).
  • Wheatley, Edward.  Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind:  Medieval Constructions of a Disability (University of Michigan Press 2010).
  • Wilkinson, Mary, Defying Disability: The Lives and Legaicies of Nine disabled Leaders (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009).
  • Wilson, Daniel J., Polio: Biographies of a Disease (Greenwood Press, 2009).
  • Yanni, Carla B., The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
  • Zulawski, Ann.  Unequal Cures:  Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950 (Duke University Press 2007).