Disability histories / edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

xii, 401 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Re-membering the past : reflections on disability histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis -- Part 1. Family, community, and daily life : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability, dependency, and the family in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Thomas Cameron's "Pure and guileless life," 1806-1870 : affection and developmental disability in a North Carolina family / Penny L. Richards -- Parents and professionals : parents' reflections on professionals, the support system, and the family in the twentieth-century United States / Allison C. Carey -- Historical perceptions of autism in Brazil : professional treatment, family advocacy, and autistic pride, 1943-2010 / Pamela Block and Fátima Gonçalves Cavalcante -- Negotiating disability : mobilization and organization among landmine survivors in late twentieth-century northern Uganda / Herbert Muyinda -- Part 2. Cultural histories : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability things : material culture and American disability history, 1700-2010 / Katherine Ott -- The Contergan scandal : media, medicine, and thalidomide in 1960s West Germany / Elsbeth Bösl -- "Lest we forget" : disabled veterans and the politics of war remembrance in the United States / John M. Kinder -- Part 3. Bodies, medicine, and contested knowledge : part introduction and guiding questions. Smallpox, disability, and survival in nineteenth-century France : rewriting paradigms from a new epidemic script / Catherine Kudlick -- "Unfit for ordinary purposes" : disability, slaves, and decision making in the antebellum American south / Dea H. Boster -- Rehabilitation staged : how Soviet doctors "cured" disability in the second World War / Frances L. Bernstein -- The curious case of the "professional hemophiliac" : medicine, disability, and the contested value of normality in the United States, 1940-2010 / Stephen Pemberton -- Border disorders : mental illness, feminist metaphor, and the disordered female psyche in the twentieth-century United States / Susan K. Cahn -- Part 4. Citizenship and belonging : part introduction and guiding questions. The paradox of social progress : the deaf cultural community in France and the ideals of the third republic at the turn of the twentieth century / Anne Quartararo -- Property, disability, and the making of the incompetent citizen in the United States, 1860s-1940s / Kim E. Nielsen -- "Salvaging the Negro" : race, rehabilitation, and the body politic in World War I America, 1917-1924 / Paul R.D. Lawrie -- Engendering and regendering disability : gender and disability activism in postwar America / Audra Jennings -- Self-advocacy and blind activists : the origins of the disability rights movement in twentieth-century India / Jagdish Chander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.