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Disability Studies

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Blind in Early Modern Japan

Disability, Medicine, and Identity

By Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A history of the blind in Japan that challenges contemporary notions of disability

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

A History of Disability

with a new foreword by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder

By Henri-Jacques Stiker
Subjects: Disability Studies, History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A bold analysis of the evolution of Western attitudes toward disability

A History of Disability

with a new foreword by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder

By Henri-Jacques Stiker
Subjects: Disability Studies, History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A bold analysis of the evolution of Western attitudes toward disability

Portraits of Violence

War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement

By Suzannah Biernoff
Subjects: Art, Disability Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Investigates the artistic, medical, and journalistic responses to facial injury in WWI

The War in Their Minds

German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany

By Svenja Goltermann
Translated by Philip Schmitz
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War

The Corrigible and the Incorrigible

Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany

By Greg Eghigian
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores how the social sciences and clinical medicine contributed to the understanding and treatment of offenders in three disparate political regimes

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

Disabled Veterans in History

Enlarged and Revised Edition

Edited by David A. Gerber
Subjects: Disability Studies, History, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan

Disabled Veterans in History

Enlarged and Revised, Afterword by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.

Edited by David A. Gerber
Subjects: Disability Studies, History, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The history of disabled veterans, from Ancient Greece to the conflict in Afghanistan

Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

Medieval Constructions of a Disability

By Edward Wheatley
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, European History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability

Making Security Social

Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany

By Greg Eghigian
Subjects: German Studies, History, Disability Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Traces the preoccupation of the modern state with the risks and insecurities generated by industrial society

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