Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

ISBN-13: 9780415511513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

David M. Turner; Kevin Stagg

Opis

This volume provides a scholarly social history of disability, encompassing cultural, literary, social, political and medical history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Approaching Anomalous Bodies / David M. Turner. 1. Representing Physical Difference: the Materiality of the Monstrous / Kevin Stagg. 2. ‘When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it’: The Rhetoric of Smallpox at the Restoration / David E. Shuttleton. 3. Plague Spots / Hal Gladfelder. 4. ‘Wonderful Effects!!!’ Graphic Satires of Vaccination in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century / Suzanne Nunn. 5. Disciplining Disabled Bodies: The Development of Orthopaedic Medicine in Britain, c.1800-1939 / Anne Borsay. 6. Making Deaf Children Talk: Changes in Educational Policy towards the Deaf in the French Third Republic / François Buton. 7. Eugenics, Modernity and Nationalism / Ayça Alemdaroglu. 8. ‘Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats’: The Inter-War Debate on Sterilization of the Mentally Deficient / Sharon Morris. 9. ‘That bastard’s following me!’ Mentally ill Australian Veterans Struggling to Maintain Control / Kristy Muir. 10. Afterword: Regulated Bodies: Disability Studies and the Controlling Professions / Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell

O autorze

David M. Turner is Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University. He formerly taught at the University of Glamorgan where he was director of the ‘Controlling Bodies: the Regulation of Conduct 1650–2000’ project. He has published widely on the social and cultural history of early modern Britain, including the monograph Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England 1660–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). His current research focuses on the idea of the ‘body beautiful’ in the eighteenth century and connections between disability and criminality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Kevin Stagg lectures in History at Cardiff University and recently contributed a Chapter on the body for Garthine Walker (ed.), Writing Early Modern History (Hodder Arnold, 2005). His research interests range from the body and disability in history to early modern print culture, transport and trade.