The Oxford Handbook of Disability History

Michael Rembis is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. He has written or edited many books and articles, including: Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (2011); Disability Histories (2014); and Disabling Domesticity (2016).Catherine Kudlick became Professor of History and Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in 2012 after two decades at the University of California, Davis. She has published a number of books and articles in disability history, including Reflections: the Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Postrevolutionary France.Kim E. Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo, where she also teaches courses in History and Women's & Gender Studies. She is the author of A Disability History of the United States (2012).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Contributors IntroductionMichael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen Part I. CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS 1. The Perils and Promises of Disability BiographyKim E. Nielsen 2. Disability History and Greco-Roman AntiquityC.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose 3. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle AgesIrina Metzler 4. Disability in the Pre-modern Arab WorldSara Scalenghe 5. Disability and the History of EugenicsMichael Rembis 6. Social History of Medicine and Disability HistoryCatherine J. Kudlick 7. Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability HistoryKatherine Ott 8. Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability HistoryBess Williamson 9. Documents, Ethics, and the Disability HistorianPenny Richards and Susan Burch Part II. WORK 10. Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in BritainDaniel Blackie 11. Disability and Work in South Asia and the United KingdomJane Buckingham 12. Disability and Work in British West AfricaJeff Grischow 13. Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United StatesPaul Lawrie14. Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United StatesAudra Jennings Part III. INSTITUTIONS 15. Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century EuropePieter Vierestraete and Ylva Söderfeldt 16. Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia and New ZealandCatharine Coleborne 17. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New ZealandAngela McCarthy 18. Institutions for People with Disabilities in North AmericaSteven Noll Part IV. REPRESENTATIONS 19. Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century EnglandDavid M. Turner 20. Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum StageJenifer L. Barclay 21. Polio and Disability in Cold War HungaryDora Vargha 22. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North AmericaLeslie J. Reagan 23. Disability in Modern Chinese CinemaSteven L. Riep Part V. MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITIES 24. Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf CommunitiesJoseph J. Murray 25. The Disability Rights Movement in the United StatesLindsey Patterson 26. The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United StatesRegina Kunzel 27. Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of WarDavid A. Gerber Index