Social histories of disability and deformity / edited by David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg.

London ; New York : Routledge bSSHM, 2006.

xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Representing physical difference : the materiality of the monstrous / Kevin Stagg -- 'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it' : the rhetoric of smallpox at the Restoration / David E. Shuttleton -- Plague spots / Hal Gladfelder -- 'Wonderful effects!!!' : graphic satires of vaccination in the first decade of the nineteenth century / Suzanne Nunn -- Disciplining disabled bodies : the development of orthopaedic medicine in Britain, c.1800-1939 / Anne Borsay -- Making deaf children talk : changes in educational policy towards the deaf in the French Third Republic / François Buton -- Eugenics, modernity and nationalism / Ayça Alemdaroglu -- 'Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats' : the interwar debate on sterilization of the mentally deficient / Sharon Morris -- 'That bastard's following me' : mentally ill Australian veterans struggling to maintain control / Kristy Muir -- Afterword : regulated bodies : disability studies and the controlling professions / Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.