Disability History on the Bookshelf

Recent Publications as of May 2012

The DHA would like to congratulate the authors of these recent (2008-2012) 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.., and Subramanian, Saskia, After the Cure:  The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (NYU Press, 2008).
  • Appignanesi, Lisa.  Mad, Bad, and Sad:  A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present (Virago 2008).
  • Anderson, Julie.  War, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Britain:  'Soul of a Nation' (Manchester University Press 2011).
  • Babini, Valeria P.  Liberi tutti:  Manicomi e psichiatri in Italia:  una storia del Novecento (Il Mulino 2009).
  • Bailey, Steve, Athlete First:  A History of the Paralympic Movement (John Wiley, 2008).
  • Baker, Naomi.  Plain Ugly:  The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture (Manchester University Press 2010).
  • Bartra, Roger, Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in the Golden Age of Spain (University of Wales Press, 2008).
  • Bates, A. W. The Anatomy of Robert Knox:  Murder, Mad Science, and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh (Sussex University Press 2010).
  • Bell, Christopher M., ed., Blackness and Disability:  Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecast 2011).
  • Bewley, Thomas,  Madness to Mental Illness:  A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Cromwell Press, 2008). 
  • Blume, Stuart.  The Artificial Ear:  Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness (Rutgers University Press 2010).
  • Boris, Eileen, and Jennifer Klein.  Caring for America:  Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford University Press 2012).
  • Bösl, Elsbeth, Anne Klein, and Anne Waldschmidt, eds. Disability History:  Konstruktionen von Behinderung in der Geschichte (Bielefeld 2010).
  • 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).
  • Byrne, Katherine.  Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination (Cambridge University Press 2011).
  • Carden-Coyne, Ana.  Reconstructing the Body:  Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War (Oxford University Press 2009).
  • Carey, Allison. On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in 20th Century America (Temple University, 2009).
  • Carlisle, Linda V. Elizabeth Packard:  A Noble Fight (University of Illinois Press 2010).
  • Chambers, Paul.  Bedlam:  London's Hospital for the Mad (Ian Allan 2009).
  • Chivers, Sally.  The Silvering Screen:  Old Age and Disability in Cinema (University of Toronto Press 2011).
  • Coleborne, Catharine.  Madness in the Family:  Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914 (Macmillan 2010).
  • Condrau, Flurin, and Michael Worboys, eds, Tuberculosis then and Now:  Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease (McGill-Queens University Press 2010).
  • Connolly, Cynthia A., Saving Sickly Children:  The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970  (Rutgers University Press,  2008).
  • Craton, Lillian.  The Victorian Freak Show:  The Significance of Disability and Physical Difference in 19th-Century Fiction (Cambria Press 2009).
  • Creamer, Deborah B., Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Crouthamel, Jason.  The Great War and German Memory:  Society, Politics, and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945 (University of Exeter Press 2009).
  • Danforth, Scot.  The Incomplete Child:  An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities (Peter Lang 2009).
  • Davis, Gayle, "The Cruel Madness of Love":  Sex, Syphilis, and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (rodopi, 2008).
  • Davis, Lennard.  Obsession:  A History (University of Chicago Press 2008).
  • 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, Nadja, Spectacle of Deformity:  Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (University of California Press, 2009).
  • Edwards, R. A. R. Words Made Flesh:  Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (NYU Press 2012).
  • Emerson, Jason, ed. and annot., Myra Helmer Prichard, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by her Own Letters (Southern Illinois University Press 2011).
  • Eyler, Joshua, ed. Disability in the Middle Ages:  Reconsiderations and Reverberations (Farnham 2010).
  • Fabrega, Horacio Jr. History of Mental Illness in India:  A Cultural Psychiatry Retrospective (Motilal Banarsidass 2009).
  • Feinstein, Adam. A History of Autism:  Conversations with the Pioneers (Blackwell 2010).
  • Feinstein, Sheryl, and D'Errico, Nicole C.  Tanzanian Women in their Own Words:  Stories of Disability and Illness (Lexington Books 2009).
  • Finn, Michael R. Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits, and Pornography:  Fin-de-Siécle Cultural Discoursesin the Decadent Rachilde (University of Delaware Press 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).
  • Gettings, Robert.  Forging a Federal State Partnership:  A History of Federal Developmental Disabilities Policy (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2011).
  • Goldstein, Jan.  Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy:  The Case of Nanette Leroux (Princeton University Press 2009).
  • Goodey, C. F. A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability':  The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate 2011).
  • Gross, Anne K. The Polio Journals: Lessons from My Mother (Diversity Matters Press 2011).
  • Hall, Kim Q., ed. Feminist Disability Studies (Indiana University Press 2011).
  • Hartsock, Chad, Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts:  The Use of Physical Features in Characterization (Brill, 2008).
  • Henderson, Gretchen E.  Galerie de Difformité (Lake Forest College Press 2011).
  • Hermsen, Lisa M. Manic Minds:  Mania's Mad History and its Neuro-Future (Rutgers University Press 2011).
  • Hirschbein, Laura D. American Melancholy:  Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century (Rutgers University Press 2009).
  • Hodgkin, Katharine, ed. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert (Ashgate 2010).
  • 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). 
  • Ingram, Allan, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker, and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson, Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century:  Before Depression 1660-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
  • Jackson, Mark. Asthma:  The Biography (Oxford University Press 2009).
  • Kaes, Anton.  Shell Shock Cinema:  Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton University Press 2009).
  • Kamionkowski, S. Tamar, and Wonil Kim, eds.,Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark 2010).
  • Kato, Masae.  Women's Rights? The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan (Amsterdam University Press 2009).
  • Kuppers, Petra.  Disability Culture and Community Performance:  Find a Strange and Twisted Shape (Palgrave 2011).
  • 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).
  • Linker, Beth.  War's Waste:  Rehabilitation in World War I America (University of Chicago Press 2011).
  • Lombardo, Paul A. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
  • Lombardo, Paul A., ed.,  A Century of Eugenics in America:  From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Indiana University Press 2011).
  • Lund, Mary Ann.  Melancholy, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern England:  Reading the Anatomy of Melancholy (Cambridge University Press 2010).
  • Manning, Corinne, Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages (University of New South Wales Press, 2008).
  • Marten, James.  Sing Not War:  The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (UNC Press 2011).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Millard, Candice Destiny of the Republic:  A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President (Doubleday 2011).
  • Millett-Gallant, Ann. The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
  • Mills, Catherine. Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914 (Ashgate 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).
  • Nielsen, Kim, Beyond the Miracle Worker:  The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon Press, 2009).
  • Noll, Richard.  American Madness:  The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox (Harvard University Press 2011).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Pelka, Fred.  What We Have Done:  An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement (University of Massachusetts Press 2012).
  • Prior, Pauline.  Madness and Murder:  Gender, Crime, and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth Century Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2008).
  • Quartararo, Anne T. Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth Century France (Gallaudet University Press, 2008).
  • Reagan, Leslie J. Dangerous Pregnancies:  Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (University of California Press 2010).
  • 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).
  • Rembis, Michael.  Defining Deviance:  Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (University of Illinois Press 2011).
  • Reznick, Jeffrey.  John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War (Manchester University Press 2009).
  • Russell, Emily.  Reading Embodied Citizenship:  Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic (Rutgers University Press 2011).
  • 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).
  • Schumm, Darla, and Michael Stoltzfus, eds. Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:  Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
  • Schweik, Susan M. The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (New York University Press, 2009).
  • Scull, Andrew.  Hysteria:  The Biography (Oxford University Press 2009).
  • Seng, Loh Kah.  Making and Unmaking the Asylum:  Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia (Strategic Information and Research Development Centre 2009).
  • Serlin, David, ed. Imagining Illness:  Public Health and Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press 2010).
  • Shah, Sonali, and Mark Priestley.  Disability and Social Change:  Private Lives and Public Policies (Policy Press 2011).
  • Shaw, Ann, and Carole Reeves.  The Children of Craig-y-nos:  Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959 (Wellcome Trust Centre 2009).
  • Singer, Julie.  Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry (DS Brewer 2011).
  • Stephens, Elizabeth.  Anatomy as Spectacle:  Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (Liverpool University Press 2011).
  • 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).
  • Truchan-Tataryn, Maria.  (In)Visible Images:  Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974 (Lambert Academic Publishing 2011).
  • Tuohela, Kirsi.  Huhtikuun Tekstit.  Kolmen Naisen Koettu Ja Kirjoitettu Melankolia 1870-1900 (SKS 2008).  [April Texts:  Three Women Writers Encountering Melacholia 1870-1900]
  • Turda, Marius.  Modernism and Eugenics (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
  • Turner, David M.  Disability in Eighteenth Century England (Routledge 2012).
  • Underwood, Doug., ed.  Chronicling Trauma:  Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss (University of Illinois Press 2011).
  • Valle, Jan W.  What Mothers Say about Special Education:  From the 1960s to the Present (Palgrave 2009).
  • Verville, Richard. War, Politics, and Philanthropy:  The History of Rehabilitation Medicine (University Press of America 2009).
  • 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).
  • Winzer, Margret A. From Integration to Inclusion:  A History of Special Education in the 20th Century (Gallaudet University Press 2009).
  • Wooten, Heather Green  The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown (Texas A&M University Press 2009).
  • Wright, David.  Downs: The History of a Disability (Oxford University Press 2011).