Disability History on the Bookshelf

Recent Publications as of January, 2010

The DHA would like to congratulate the authors of these recent 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).
  • 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). 
  • Ballenger, Jesse F., Self, Senility and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
  • Bartra, Roger, Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in the Golden Age of Spain (University of Wales Press, 2008).
  • Bates, A. W., Emblematic Monsters:  Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Editions Rodopi BV, 2005). 
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Carson, John, The Measure of Merit:  Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2006).
  • 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).
  • Dale, Pamela and Melling, Joseph (Eds.), Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom (Routledge, 2006).
  • Davis, Gayle, "The Cruel Madness of Love":  Sex, Syphilis, and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (rodopi, 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]
  • 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).
  • Ernst, Waltraud (Ed.), Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity (Routledge, 2006).
  • 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).
  • Furdell, Elizabeth Lane, Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin (Brill, 2009).
  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, Staring: How We Look (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Greider, Kathleen J., Much Madness is Divinest Sense:  Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering (Pilgrim Press, 2007).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Keller, Richard C., Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago University Press, 2007).
  • Killen, Andreas, Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity (University of California Press, 2006).
  • 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).
  • Lederer, David, Madness, Religion, and the State in Early Modern Europe:  The Bavarian Beacon (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Melling, Joseph, and Forsythe, Bill, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845-1914 (Routledge, 2006).
  • Metzl, Jonathan M.  The Protest Psychosis:  How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press 2010).
  • Molina, Natalia, Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (University of California Press, 2006).
  • 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 i(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)
  • 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).
  • Peitikainen, 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).
  • Schoen, Johanna, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
  • Schweik, Susan M. The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (New York University Press, 2009).
  • Shorter, Edward, and Healy, David, Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
  • Smith-Morris, Carolyn, Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival (University of Arizona Press, 2006).
  • Stern, Alexandra, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (University of California Press, 2005).
  • Tabak, John, Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign Language (Praeger, 2006).
  • Taylor, Steven J. Acts of Conscience: world War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors (Syracuse University Press, 2009).
  • 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).
  • Turner, David M., and Stagg, Kevin (Eds.), Social Histories of Disability and Deformity (Routledge, 2006).
  • 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)].
  • Weygand, Zina, The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille (Stanford University Press, 2009). 
  • 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).