Scholarship

Below is a list of recent (mostly) English-language books, articles, dissertations, and works in progress in Disability History. The list of books, articles, and dissertations is updated monthly by the editors of the H-Disability listserv, DHA Newsletter editor, and former DHA president. If you would like your scholarship to be added to our recent books list, please send the citation information and a brief description of how your work contributes to disability history as a field of study to disability.history@gmail.com.

A full bibliography of articles in Disability History published from March 2001 to March 2016, also compiled by Penny L. Richards, is available in Word and in PDF.

Recent Books in Disability History (2016-present)

Abel, Emily. Living in Death’s Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Atherton, Martin. Deafness, Community, and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion 1945-1995. Manchester University Press, 2016.

Baynton, Douglas C. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Coleborne, Catharine. Insanity, Identity, and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016.

Doyle, Dennis A. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968. University of Rochester Press 2016.

Eghigian, Greg, ed. The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health. Routledge, 2017.

Ernst, Waltraud ed. Work, Psychiatry and Society, c. 1750-2015. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016.

Goodey, C. F. Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

Greenwald, Brian H., and Joseph J. Murray, eds. In Our Own Hands: Essays in Deaf History, 1780–1970. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2016.

Jennings, Audra. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Mawdsley, Stephen E. Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 2016.

Metzler, Irina. Fools and Idiots?: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016.

Pearl, Sharrona. Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Pestilli, Livio. Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

Slorach, Roddy. A Very Capitalist Condition: A History and Politics of Disability. Bookmarks Publications, 2016.

Weinert, Sebastian. 100 Jahre Fürst Donnersmarck-Stiftung, 1916–2016. Berlin: Selbstverlag, 2016.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters in Disability History (2016-present)

Block, Kristen. “Slavery and Inter-Imperial Leprosy Discourse in the Atlantic World,” Atlantic Studies 14(2)(June 2017): 243-262.

Boylan, Alexis L. “Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Erotics of Illness,” American Art 30 (2) (Summer 2016): 14-31.

Chang, Heng-hao. “From Advocacy to Service Provision: State Transformation and the Disability Rights Movement in Taiwan,” Disability & Society 32(3)(2017): 308-322.

Damamme, Aurélie, Emmanuelle Fillion, and Myriam Finance. “At the Crossroads of Care and Disability: Historical Variations and International Perspectives,” ALTER: European Journal of Disability Research 10 (1) (January-March 2016): 1-9.

Doat, David. “Disability, Compassion, and Care: The Prehistoric and Controversial Grounds of a Long-Standing Issue,” ALTER: European Journal of Disability Research 10 (1) (January-March 2016): 10-23.

Earle, Harriet E. H. “‘A Convenient Place for Inconvenient People’: Madness, Sex and the Asylum in ‘American Horror Story’,” Journal of Popular Culture 50(2)(April 2017): 259-275.

Goodley, Dan, Katherine Runswick-Cole, and Kirsty Liddiard. “The DisHuman Child,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 37 (5) (October 2016): 770-784. Open access online here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2015.1075731

Kennedy, Stephanie Dawn, and Melanie J. Newton. “The Haunting of Slavery: Colonialism and the Disabled Body in the Caribbean,” in Disability in the Global South: the Critical Handbook, eds. Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic (New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2016), 379-391.

Klautke, Egbert. “‘The Germans are Beating Us at Our Own Game’: American Eugenics and the German Sterilization Law of 1933,” History of the Human Sciences 29 (3) (July 2016): 25-43.

Kogan, Nathaniel Smith. “Aberrations in the Body and in the Body Politic: The Eighteenth-Century Life of Benjamin Lay, Disabled Abolitionist,” Disability Studies Quarterly 36 (3) (Summer 2016):
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5135/4410

Linker, Beth. “Spines of Steel: A Case of Surgical Enthusiasm in America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 90 (2) (2016): 222-249.

McDonald, Kate. “The Woman’s Body as Compensation for the Disabled First World War Soldier,” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 10 (1) (2016).

Milward, Gareth. “A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government’s Response to the Pertussus Vaccine Scare,” Social History of Medicine 30(2)(May 2017): 429-447.

Munch, Janet Butler. “At Home in the Bronx: Children at the New York Catholic Protectory,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal 52 (Spring/Fall 2015): 30-48.

O’Connell, Noel Patrick. “A Tale of Two Schools: Educating Catholic Female Deaf Children in Ireland, 1846-1946,” History of Education 45 (2) (March 2016): 188-205.

Pearl, Sharrona. “Victorian Blockbuster Bodies and the Freakish Pleasure of Looking,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38 (2) (2016): 93-106.

Powell, Julie M. “Shock Troupe: Medical Film and the Performance of ‘Shell Shock’ for the British Nation at War” Social History of Medicine 30(2)(May 2017): 323-345.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Alice G.” [1854-1938, Toronto Asylum Inmate Labourer] Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XVI (1931-40) (University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2016). Online at: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/g_alice_16E.html.

Roper, Michael. “From the Shell-shocked Soldier to the Nervous Child: Psychoanalysis in the Aftermath of the First World War,” Psychoanalysis and History 18 (1) (January 2016): 39-69.

Shepherd, Jade. “‘I am not very well I feel nearly mad when I think of you’: Male Jealousy, Murder, and Broadmoor in Late-Victorian Britain,” Social History of Medicine 30(2)(May 2017): 277-298.

Spagnuolo, Natalie. “Defining Dependency, Constructing Curability: The Deportation of ‘Feebleminded’ Patients from the Toronto Asylum, 1920-1925,” Histoire sociale/Social History 48 (98) (2016): 125-154.

Stephens, Elizabeth, and Peter Cryle. “Eugenics and the Normal Body: The Role of Visual Images and Intelligence Testing in Framing the Treatment of People with Disabilities in the Early Twentieth Century,” Continuum 31(3)(2017).

Taylor, Steven J. “Depraved, Deprived, Dangerous and Deviant: Depicting the Insane Child in England’s County Asylums, 1845-1907,” History 101 (347) (October 2016): 513-535.

Recent Dissertations in Disability History (2016-present)

Belolan, Nicole (PhD, University of Delaware 2017). “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861.”

Caldwell, Holly (PhD, University of Delaware, 2016). “Modernizing Deafness: Education, Public Health, and Social Reform in Mexico City, 1860-1940.”

Daen, Laurel Richardson (PhD, College of William and Mary 2016). “The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States.”

Phelps Coco, Adrienne (PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, 2015). “Five Lives of Mollie Fancher: Nineteenth Century Curiosity, Clairvoyant, Hysteric, Care Recipient, Invalid.”

Works In Progress

The DHA would like to acknowledge works in progress and encourage collaboration between scholars in the field of Disability History. Please email a DHA board member if you would like your work to be listed here and include a brief description of how your work contributes to disability history as a field of study.

Jannelle Legg (PhD candidate, George Mason University). Her dissertation is tentatively titled “‘With Eloquent Fingers He Preached:’ the Episcopal Mission to the Deaf” and will examine the emergence of deaf forms of religious expression between 1873 and 1943.

Alexandra Morris (PhD candidate, Teeside University). Her dissertation-in-progress focuses on disability during the Hellenistic/Ptolemaic time period. She previously completed her MA thesis on physical disability in ancient Egypt. Her work has been published in the Athens Journal of History and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, both of which are on disability as related to Alexander the Great/the Macedonians.