Disability Histories

Susan Burch is an associate professor of American studies and former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Middlebury College. She is the author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. Michael Rembis is an assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and the director of the Center for Disability Studies. He is the author of Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890–1960.

Honorable Mention, Best Book Award, Disability History Association, 2016.— Disability History Association

• CoverTitleContentsList of KeywordsAcknowledgmentsRe-Membering the Past: Reflections on Disability Histories—Susan Burch and Michael RembisPart One. Family, Community, and Daily Life1. Disability, Dependency, and the Family in the Early United States—Daniel Blackie2. Thomas Cameron's "Pure and Guileless Life," 1806–1870: Affection and Developmental Disability in3. Parents and Professionals: Parents' Reflections on Professionals, the Support System, and the Fam4. Historical Perceptions of Autism in Brazil: Professional Treatment, Family Advocacy, and Autistic5. Negotiating Disability: Mobilization and Organization among Landmine Survivors in Late Twentieth-Part Two. Cultural Histories6. Disability Things: Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700–2010—Katherine Ott7. The Contergan Scandal: Media, Medicine, and Thalidomide in 1960s West Germany—Elsbeth Bösl8. "Lest We Forget": Disabled Veterans and the Politics of War Rememberance in the United States—JohPart Three: Bodies, Medicine, and Contested Knowledge9. Smallpox, Disability, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century France: Rewriting Paradigms from a New E10. "Unfit for Ordinary Purposes": Disability, Slaves, and Decision Making in the Antebellum America11. Rehabilitation Staged: How Soviet Doctors "Cured" Disability in the Second World War—Frances L.12. The Curious Case of the "Professional Hemophiliac": Medicine, Disability and the Contested Value13. Border Disorders: Mental Illness, Feminist Metaphor, and the Disordered Female Psych in the TwenPart Four. Citizenship and Belonging14. The Paradox of Social Progress: The Deaf Cultural Community in France in the Ideals of the Third15. Property, Disability, and the Making of the Incompetent Citizen in the United States, 1860s–194016. "Salvaging the Negro": Race, Rehabilitation, and the Body Politic in World War I American, 1917–17. Engendering and Regendering Disability: Gender and Disability Activism in Postwar America—Audra18. Self-Advocacy and Blind Activists: The Origins of the Disability Rights Movement in Twentieth-CeAbout the ContributorsIndex