UC Davis Disability Studies Blog

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2012-01-17T11:18:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2011-2012). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Bloul, Rachel A. D. "Ain't I a Woman? Female Landmine Survivors' Beauty Pageants and the Ethics of Staring," _Social Identities_ 18(1) (January 2012): 3-18.

Dias, John, Malcolm Eardley, Elizabeth Harkness, Louise Townson, Chloe Brownlee-Chapman, and Rohhss Chapman, "Keeping Wartime Memory Alive: An Oral History Project about the Wartime Memories of People with Learning Difficulties in Cumbria," _Disability & Society_ 27(1) (2012): 31-49.

Esmail, Jennifer. "'I Listened with my Eyes': Writing Speech and Reading Deafness in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins," _ELH_ 78(4)(Winter 2011): 991-1020.

Harris, Sharon. "Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Kitty's Choice' and the Disabled Woman Physician," _American Literary Realism_ 44(Fall 2011): 23-45.

Lazzarini, Elena. "Wonderful Creatures: Early Modern Perceptions of Deformed Bodies," _Oxford Art Journal_ 34(3)(2011): 415-431.

Martin, Holly E. "Chang and Eng Bunker, 'The Original Siamese Twins': Living, Dying, and Continuing under the Spectator's Gaze," _Journal of American Culture_ 34(4)(December 2011): 372-390.

REVIEWS:

Angus Gowland reviewed Mary Ann Lund, _Melancholy, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy_ (Cambridge UP 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(523)(2011): 1527-1529.

Fiona Pettit reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (UC Press 2010), in _Early Popular Visual Culture_ 9(4)(2011): 365-367.

NEW BOOKS:

Richard Noll, _American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox_ (Harvard University Press 2011).

Doug Underwood, ed. _Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss_ (University of Illinois Press 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-Hum), Daniel Wilson, Kathleen Sheldon

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-11-04T14:10:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Cherniak, Elizabeth. "Discourse with the Monstruous: Able-Bodied and Disabled Encounters with Primitive Other in Africa," in Pedro F. Marcelino, ed., _Home in Motion: The Shifting Grammars of Self and Stranger_ (Oxford Interdisciplinary Press 2011).

Ghadessi, Touba. "Inventoried Monsters: Dwarves and Hirsutes at Court," _Journal of the History of Collections_ 23(2)(2011): 267-281.

Grischow, Jeff D. "Kwame Nkrumah, Disability, and Rehabilitation in Ghana, 1957-66," _Journal of African History_ 52(2)(2011): 179-199.

Lubin, David M. "Losing Sight: War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22," _Art History_ 34(4) (September 2011): 796-817.

Serlin, David. "Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s," in Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, eds., _Sex and Disability_ (Duke University Press, forthcoming January 2012): 145-164.

REVIEWS:

James W. Trent reviewed C. F. Goodey, _A HIstory of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe_ (Ashgate 2011), in _Reviews in History_ (2011)(review #1140);
online here:
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1140

Zosha Stuckey reviewed Lillian Craton, _The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Difference in 19th-Century Fiction_ (Cambria Press 2009), in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(4)
(2011): online here:
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1696/1778

Eric Wertheimer reviewed John C. Burnham, _Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age_ (University of Chicago Press 2009), in _American Historical Review_ 116(4)(October 2011): 1090-1091.

DISSERTATIONS:

Joanna Pearce (MA, Dalhousie University 2011): "'Fighting in the Dark': Sir Charles Frederick Fraser and the Halifax Asylum for the Blind, 1850-1915"

Contributions received this month from: Kathleen Sheldon, Jonathon Erlen, Joanna Pearce, Tim Vermande

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-10-09T13:17:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Filippi, Natacha. "Deviance, Punishment, and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid: Insane, Political, and Common-Law Prisoners in a South African Gaol," _Journal of South African Studies_ 37(3)(2011): 627-643.

Laes, Christian. "Silent Witnesses: Deaf-Mutes in Graeco-Roman Antiquity," _Classical World_ 104(4)(Summer 2011): [no pages, sorry].

McCulloch, Jock. "Air Hunger: The 1930 Johannesburg Conference and the Politics of Silicosis," _History Workshop Journal_ 72(2011): 118-137.

REVIEWS:

Heli Leppälä reviewed Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009) in _Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research_ 13(2)(2011): 169-172.

Emma Griffin reviewed Catherine Mills, _Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914_ (Ashgate 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(522)(2011): 1213-1214.

Brenda Assael reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2010), in _English Historical Review_ 126(522)(2011): 1221-1222.

Susan Hogan reviewed Lisa Appignanesi, _Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present_ (Virago Press 2008) in _Women's Studies_ 40(7)(2011): 940-945.

Joe Parker reviewed Masae Kato, _Women's Rights? The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan_ (Amsterdam UP 2009) in _Women's Studies_ 40(7)(2011): 951-955.

Amos Yong reviewed Vardit Rispler-Chaim, _Disability in Islamic Law_(Springer 2007), in _Religious Studies Review_ 37(3)(September 2011): 228-229.

Daniel C. Dillard reviewed Nathaniel Deutsch, _Inventing America's "Worst" Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael_ (University of California Press 2009) in _Religious Studies Review_ 37(3)(September 2011): 230.

Barbara Cole reviewed Jan W. Valle, _What Mothers Say About Special Education: From the 1960s to the Present_ (Palgrave 2009), in _History of Education_ 40(4)(July 2011): 553-556.

DISSERTATIONS:

Blake, Nathan D. (PhD, University of California-Irvine 2011): "Camera Consciousness: The Aesthetic and Prosthetic Legacy of World War I"

Advisor: Peter Krapp

Meredith-Dunlop, Amanda Leigh (MA, University of Utah 2011): "Body and Mind: A Comparison of Photographic Depictions of Physically and Mentally Wounded British Soldiers During the Great War"

Advisor: Nadja Durbach

NEW BOOKS:

Stuart Murray, _Autism_ (Taylor and Francis 2011).

Submissions received this month from: Dan Wilson, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-HUM), Kathleen Sheldon

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-09-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Barry, Lorelle, and Catharine Coleborne. "Insanity and Ethnicity in New Zealand: Maori Encounters with the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1860-1900," _History of Psychiatry_ 22(3)(September 2011): 268-284.

Brian, Kathleen M. "The Reclamation of Anna Agnew: Violence, Victimhood, and the Uses of 'Cure,'" _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(3)(2011): 279-302.

Joshua, Essaka. "The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's _Notre-Dame de Paris_," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(3)(2011): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1677

Kelly, Susan. "Education of Tubercular Children in Northern Ireland, 1921 to 1955," _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 426-444.

Martyr, Philippa. "'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses of Lunacy among Indigenous Persons in Western Australia, 1870-1914," _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 316-333.

Newman, Sara. "Disability and Self Life Writing: Reports from the Nineteenth Century Asylum," _Journal of LIterary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(3)(2011): 261-278.

Pearce, David. "Evacuation and Deprivation: The Wartime Experience of the Devon and Exeter City Mental Hospitals," _History of Psychiatry_ 22(3)(September 2011): 315-331.

Stuckey, Zosha. "'What Has Become of Jimmy Thornton?': The Rhetoric(s) of Letter-Writing at the New York State Asylum for Idiots, 1855-1866," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(3)(2011): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1669

REVIEWS:

Akihito Suzuki reviewed Catharine Coleborne, _Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914_ (Macmillan 2010), in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 499-500.

Stephanie Neuner reviewed Jason Crouthamel, _The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics, and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945_ (University of Exeter Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 501-502.

Andrew Hull reviewed Carole Reeves and Ann Shaw, _The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959_ (Wellcome Trust 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 1922-1959.

Dora Vargha reviewed Heather Green Wooten, _The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown_ (Texas A&M University Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 525-526.

Julie Anderson reviewed Stuart Blume, _The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness_(Rutgers University Press 2010) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2)(2011): 531-532.

Sadiah Qureshi reviewed Nadja Durbach, _Spectacles of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2009), in _Centaurus_ 53(3)(August 2011): 237-238.

Jacqueline Wernimont reviewed Andrew Scull, _Hysteria: A Biography_ (Oxford UP 2009), in _Women's Studies_ 40(2011): 814-817.

DISSERTATIONS:

Boster, Dea Hadley (PhD, University of Michigan 2010): "Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African-American Slavery in the United States, 1800-1860"

Advisor: Martin S. Pernick

NEW BOOK:

Petra Kuppers, _Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape_ (Palgrave 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Samuel Miller, John Erlen, Petra Kuppers, Brenda Brueggemann (via DS-HUM)

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-08-03T12:15:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Brooks, Jane. "Managing the Burden: Nursing Older People in England, 1955-1980," _Nursing Inquiry_ 18(3)(September 2011): 226-234.

Jordan, Brian Matthew. "'Living Monuments': Union Veteran Amputees and the Embodied Memory of the Civil War," _Civil War History_ 57(2)(June 2011): 121-152.

Precoda, Karl, and P. S. Polanah. "In the Vortex of Modernity: Writing Blackness, Blindness, and Insight," _Journal of Modern Literature_ 34(3)(Spring 2011): 31-46.

Shaidi, Aliya. "Marriage and Mental Illness in the Mamluk Period," in M. Haddad, Armin Heinemanna, John L. Meloy, and Souad Slim, eds., _Towards a Cultural History of the Mamluk Era_ (Orient Institut Beirut/ Ergon Verlag 2010).

NEW BOOK:

Emily Russell,_Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic_(Rutgers University Press 2011).

NEW THESES AND DISSERTATIONS:

Mark Feigan (PhD, La Trobe University 2011): "The Victorian Office of the Public Advocate: A First History 1986-2007"

Online: http://www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au/

Sarah M. Gray, (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011) "Irish Disability: Postcolonial Narratives of Stunted Development" Advisor: Joseph Valente

Online: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/24252

Dollman, Carly (BA Honors Dissertation, University of Stirling 2011): "Moral Therapy: The English Pauper Lunatic Asylum, circa 1845-1856"

Contributions received this month from: Kristina Richardson, Mark Feigan, Samuel Miller, John Erlen, Iain Hutchison, Rachel A. Zubal- Ruggieri (via DS-HUM)

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-05-02T16:45:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Birchenall, Javier A. "Airborne Diseases: Tuberculosis in the Union Army," _Explorations in Economic History_ 48(2)(April 2011): 325-342.

Johnson, Russell L. "'Great Injustice': Social Status and the Distribution of Military Pensions after the Civil War," _Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era_ 10(2)(April 2011): [no pages, sorry].

Laws, Jennifer. "Crackpots and Basket-Cases: A History of Therapeutic Work and Occupation," _History of the Human Sciences_ 24(2011): 65-81.

Pappous, Athanasios (Sakis), Anne Marcellini, and Eric deLéséleuc. "From Sydney to Beijing: The Evolution of the Photographic Coverage of Paralympic Games in Five European Countries," _Sport in Society_ 14(3)(2011): 355-369.

Reaume, Geoffrey. "Psychiatric Patient Built Wall Tours at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, 2000-2010," _Left History_ 15(1)(Fall-Winter 2010-2011), 129-148.

Stebbings, Chantal. "An Effective Model of Institutional Taxation: Lunatic Asylums in Nineteenth-Century England," _Journal of Legal History_ 32(1)(2011): 31-59.

NEW BOOK:

Katherine Byrne, _Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination_ (Cambridge University Press 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Geoffrey Reaume

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-04-05T12:37:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Harison, Casey. "Redemptive Violence and Stuttering across the Atlantic: The Who's 'My Generation' and Herman Melville's _Billy Budd_ in Historical Perspective," _Atlantic Studies_ 8(1)(2011): 49-68.

Kornbluh, Felicia. "Disability, Antiprofessionalism, and Civil Rights: The National Federation of the Blind and the 'Right to Organize' in the 1950s," _Journal of American History_ 97(4)(March 2011): 1023-1047.

Loh, Kah Seng. "'No More Road to Walk': Cultures of Heritage and Leprosariums in Singapore and Malaysia," _International Journal of Heritage Studies_ 17(3)(2011): 230-244.

Martyr, Philippa. "Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924-1939," _History Compass_ 9(3)(March 2011): 171-199.

Schmidt, Patrick. "Behinderung in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ein Forschungsbericht," [Disability in the Early Modern Period: a research report] _Zeitschrift für historische Forschung_ 37(4)(2010): 617-651.

NEW BOOK:

Christopher M. Bell, ed., _Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions_ (Forecaast 2011).

CONFERENCE REVIEW:

David M. Turner reviewed "Disability History: Looking Forward to a Better Past," 25-26 June 2010, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, in _History Workshop Journal 71(2011): 283-287.

REVIEWS:

John Regan reviewed Gayle Davis, _'The Cruel Madness of Love': Sex, Syphilis, and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930_ (Rodopi 2008) in "Syphilis and Madness," _Women: A Cultural Review_ 22(1)(2011): 95-97.

Sabrina T. Kriebel reviewed Anton Kaes, _Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War_ (Princeton University Press 2009), in "Filmic Constructions: Shellshocked Women and Nazi New Women," _Gender & History_ 23(1)(April 2011): 173-175.

Tania Anne Woloshyn reviewed Andrew Scull, _Hysteria: The Biography_ (Oxford University Press 2009), Jan Goldstein, _Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux_ (Princeton University Press 2010), and Laura D. Hirshbein, _American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century (Rutgers University Press 2009), in _Gender & History_ 23(1)(April 2011): 216-219.

Fiona Hutton reviewed Pauline Prior, _Madness and Murder: Gender, Crime, and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Ireland_ (Irish Academic Press 2008), in _Social & Legal Studies_ 20(2011): 126-129.

Laurence Monnais reviewed Loh Kah Seng, _Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia_ (Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 174-175.

David Herzberg reviewed Laura D. Hirshbein, _American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century_ (Rutgers University Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 183-185.

Michael Hau reviewed Ana Carden-Coyne, _Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War_ (Oxford University Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011) 187-189.

Priscilla Wald reviewed Jonathan M. Metzl, _The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease_ (Beacon Press 2010) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 194-195.

Lisa Rosner Reviewed A. W. Bates, _The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science, and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh_ (Sussex University Press 2010) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 195-196.

Kerry Neale reviewed Jeffrey Reznick, _John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War_ (Manchester University Press 2009), in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 214-215.

Roberta Passione reviewed Valeria P. Babini, _Liberi tutti. Manicomi e psichiatri in Italia: una storia del Novecento_ (Il Mulino 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 24(2011): 218-219.

John Vickrey Van Cleve reviewed Kim E. Nielsen, _Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller_ (Beacon 2009), in _Journal of American History_ 97(4)(March 2011): 1135-1136.

Penny L. Richards reviewed Kim E. Nielsen, _Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller_ (Beacon 2009), in _History of Education Quarterly_ 50(4)(November 2010): 568-569.

Steven A. Gelb reviewed Scot Danforth, _The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities_ (Peter Lang 2009), in _History of Education Quarterly_ 50(4)(November 2010): 553-555.

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Kristina Richardson, Kathleen Brian, Kim Nielsen

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-03-03T11:19:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Altschuler, Sari. "'He That Hath an Ear to Hear': Deaf America and the Second Great Awakening," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(1) (2011): [online only].

Gabbard, Dwight Christopher. "Disability Studies and the British Long Eighteenth Century," _Literature Compass_ 8(2)(February 2011): 80-94.

Lunardo, Emilia. "The Indelible Legacy of 999 Queen Street West," _Voice: Newsletter of the Psychiatric Survivors Archive, Toronto_ 2(1) (Winter 2011): 5, 12.

Popp, Valerie L. "'Eloquent Limbs': D. H. Lawrence and the Aesthetics of Disability," _Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(1)(2011): 35-52.

Raz, Mical. "Was Cultural Deprivation in Fact Sensory Deprivation? Deprivation, Retardation, and Intervention in the USA," _History of the Human Sciences_ 24(1)(February 2011): 51-69.

Schweik, Susan. "Lomax's Matrix: Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power of 504," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(1)(2011): [online only].

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. "Deaf American Jewish Culture in Historical Perspective," _American Jewish History_ 95(3)(September 2009): 277-305.

Tankard, Alex. "The Victorian Consumptive in Disability Studies," _Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies_ 5(1)(2011): 17-33.

Wynter, Rebecca. "'Good in All Respects': Appearance and Dress at Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum, 1818-1854," _History of Psychiatry_ 22(1)(2011): 40-57.

REVIEWS:

Sarah Franz reviewed Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner, _Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson_ (UNC Press 2007), in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 31(1)(2011): [online only].

Johan H. Coetzee reviewed S. Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim, eds., _Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible_ (T&T Clark 2010), in _Review of Biblical Literature_ (2011).

BOOKS:

Wedemeyer-Kolwe, Bernd. _"Verhinderte Gesunde": Die Geschichte des niedersächsischen Behindertensports_ (Hannover 2010).

Schmuhl, Hans-Walter; Winkler, Ulrike. _Gewalt in der Körperbehindertenhilfe: Das Johanna-Helenen-Heim in Volmarstein von 1947 bis 1967_ (Bielefeld 2010).

Schmuhl, Hans-Walter. _Exklusion und Inklusion durch Sprache_. Zur Geschichte des Begriffs Behinderung (= IMEW Expertise 11)(Berlin 2010).

Bösl, Elsbeth; Klein, Anne. Waldschmidt, Anne (Eds.). _Disability History: Konstruktionen von Behinderung in der Geschichte_ (Bielefeld 2010).

DISSERTATIONS:

Nathan D. Blake (PhD, UC-Irvine 2011): "Camera Consciousness: The Aesthetic and Prosthetic Legacy of World War I" Advisor: Peter Krapp

Contributions received this month from: Sebastian Weinert, Douglas Baynton, Geoffrey Reaume, Tim Vermande

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

RESOURCE: Ouch!

2011-02-04T11:14:00.000-08:00

Ouch!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/

Ouch! is a BBC website by and for disabled people, and it is also for those who hold an interest in the disabled, such as family, friends, and professionals. There are articles, podcasts, blogs and a message board. The Ouch! talk show podcast is an award-winning half hour show, and a new episode is broadcast about twice per month. The topics range from DadaFest, the world's biggest disability arts festival, dating websites, live musical performances by disabled musicians, and the Blind Football World Cup. Tech-interested visitors will enjoy Adrian Higginbotham's regular feature on accessible technology devices, such as the "Ouch! guide to audio description" and "TV help". Visitors can subscribe to the "Newsletter" to get a weekly brief on what's new in disability news and what's new on the site. The link to subscribe is on the bottom left side of the homepage. Visitors will want to check out the "Play" link, with its humorous drawings, comics and articles. The "Motley Zoo" comic depicts disabled animals, such as a shy peacock or the owl and the pussycat that can't go out to sea because they have hydrophobia.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-02-02T21:48:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

McWilliams, Ellen. "Madness and Mother Ireland in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe," _Irish Studies Review_ 18(4)(November 2010): 391-400.

Metzler, Irina. "Disability in the Middle Ages: Impairment at the Intersection of Historical Inquiry and Disability Studies," _History Compass_ 9(1)(2011): 45-60.

Meyer, Manuella. "Sanity in the South Atlantic: The Mythos of Philippe Pinel and the Asylum Movement in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro," _Atlantic Studies_ 7(4)(2010): 473-492.

Odell, Tracy. "Not Your Average Childhood: Lived Experience of Children with Physical Disabilities Raised in Bloorview Hospital, Home, and School from 1960 to 1989," _Disability and Society_ 26(1) (2011): 49-63.

Tomlinson, Niles. "Creeping in the 'Mere': Catagenesis in Poe's 'Black Cat' and Gilman's 'Yellow Wallpaper,'" _ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance_ 56(3)(2010): 232-268.

NEW BOOKS:

Barbara L. Floyd, _From Institutions to Independence: A History of People with Disabilities in Northwest Ohio_ (University of Toledo Press 2011).

Contributions received this month from: Kristina Richardson, Tricia Salata

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Nancy Kathleen Seyden 1947-2011

2011-01-26T13:54:00.000-08:00

Obituary

Nancy Kathleen Seyden

1947-2011

Nancy Kathleen Seyden died on January 22, at the age of 63 at Sutter Davis Hospital following respiratory failure. She was born to Walter and Anne Seyden on July 21, 1947 in San Francisco and grew up with her little sister Phyllis in Pleasant Hill, where their parents had settled after the Second World War. Nancy was twelve years old when she was diagnosed with a Guillian-Barré neuromuscular condition following a polio vaccine. The illness terminated Nancy’s dream of becoming a ballet dancer and forever changed the life of her family.

Nancy spent her formative years in an iron lung at the county hospital in Martinez, California. She arrived on the UC Davis campus in 1967 as a freshman after some trepidation from officials at the University. This was understandable considering that Nancy appeared in a large power wheelchair with ventilator machines. Because the campus was not prepared to deal with the needs of disabled students, Nancy was housed in a room on the first floor of the Student Health Center, where medical staff could keep an eye on her.

In the face of formidable obstacles, both physical and social, Nancy was determined to succeed and graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in 1972. She went on to earn a Master’s degree in Human Development in 1975. Shortly thereafter, Joel Bryan, a renowned activist in the Independent Living movement, recruited her to the UC Davis Services to Handicapped Students (later called the Disability Resource Center) that was developed under his leadership. Joel became her lifelong mentor and friend. Nancy made significant contributions to the campus and through her counseling and support, encouraged and empowered hundreds of students with disabilities throughout the years. Nancy left the Disability Resource Center in 1993 after it shifted its focus from student empowerment to compliance with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) regulations. Despite this disappointment, Nancy never lost her passion to help students with disabilities attain their academic and personal goals.

Shortly after leaving the Disability Resource Center, Nancy joined a nationally funded Research and Training Center in Neuromuscular Diseases at the UC Davis Medical School. She worked there for several grant periods, focusing on quality of life issues and rehabilitation and gave occasional lectures to students at the Medical School. Her main effort was “focus group” interviews of the life cycles of persons with neuromuscular conditions. Ultimately, she collaborated with the California Department of Rehabilitation on employment issues for people with disabilities.

Nancy was a tireless advocate for persons with disabilities and was involved in myriad organizations at the University and in the community: Nancy was a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Resources for Independent Living Center in Sacramento (serves Yolo County); she developed training videos and lectures for the Yolo In-Home Support Services program and the UC Davis Medical School; she was a member of the committees for ADA Compliance and Human Relations, City of Davis; she served as president of the Yolano Chapter of Californians For Disability Rights; she was a founding member of the UC Davis Forum on Disability Issues; she was chair of the Yolo In-Home-Supportive Services and Public Authority Advisory Committee; she was the founding vice-president for the statewide California In-Home Support Services Consumer Alliance (CICA).

Despite her full-time work schedule and committee involvement, Nancy still found time to travel extensively throughout the western United States, from New Mexico to Canada. Her long road trips were legendary and her orange (and later white) van was seen in the strangest places, exploring the small and big wonders of the world. She had a deep interest of all living creatures and in nature and could never give up reaching that rare overview or that elusive bird, out there - far away. She also found the time to attend the annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee where Dixieland and Zydeco were her all-time favorites.

It may be easy to overlook the fact that Nancy’s life was a constant struggle to stay aloft. She acutely felt that she was being financially penalized for being disabled, for working, for being married, and for retiring. She saw the root of the problem in the fact that in order to obtain state support to fill her care needs, she and her husband were forced to live well below the poverty line. She struggled for years to right this injustice and to improve the state In-Home Support Services. She did not live to see the latest onslaught on these essential services for people who are in the most need for support.

Nancy retired in 2008 after over 30 years with the University, determined fully to devote her life to her pets, garden, reading, and her husband of many years. She rediscovered the knitting passion of her youth and gained many new friends through her interests and volunteer work, which included Yolo Reads, and Yolo Basin Foundation. Nancy was an education docent for Yolo Basin Foundation and volunteered countless hours teaching visiting school kids.

Nancy left a lasting impression on the people she met and interacted with. She and her husband were an inspiring presence in the Davis community for more than two decades. Nancy’s loss will leave a void in the lives of all who knew her and appreciated her boundless energy, eternal optimism, patience and kindness and especially, her wicked sense of humor. She will be deeply missed by her family, friends, colleagues, and caregivers, many of whom are scattered around the country but always kept in touch.

Donations in Nancy’s memory can be made to the Yolo Basin Foundation, P.O. Box 943, Davis, CA 95617. The funds will be used to improve accessibility at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, which Nancy loved so much.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2011-01-05T21:29:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Dilling, Horst, Hans Peter Thomsen, and Fritz Hohagen. "Care of the Insane in Lubeck during the 17th and 18th Centuries," _History of Psychiatry_ 21(4)(December 2010): 371-386.

Galer, Dustin. "A Friend in Need or a Business Indeed?: Disabled Bodies and Fraternalism in Victorian Ontario," _Labour/Le Travail_ 66(Fall 2010): 9-36.

Grob, Gerald N. "From Aging to Pathology: The Case of Osteoporosis," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 66(2011): 1-39.

Villasante, Olga. "'War Neurosis' during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)," _History of Psychiatry_ 21(4)(December 2010): 424-435.

REVIEWS:

Oren Baruch Stier reviewed Anne Maxwell, _Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940_ (Sussex Academic Press 2008), in _Holocaust Genocide Studies_ 24(2010): 476-479.

Alamin Mazrui reviewed Nathaniel Deutsch, _Inventing America's Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael_ (University of California Press 2009) in _Journal of Islamic Studies_ 22(2011): 106-108.

John Campbell reviewed Bernadette Hoefer, _Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature_ (Ashgate 2009), in _French Studies_ 65(2011): 96-97.

Louise Lyle reviewed Jan Goldstein, _Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux_ (Princeton University Press 2009), in _French Studies_ 65(2011): 110.

Jonathon Erlen reviewed Colin L. Talley, _A History of Multiple Sclerosis_ (Praeger 2008) in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 66(2011): 137-139.

Contributions received this month from: Dustin Galer, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Disability Studies related dissertations

2010-11-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

Colleagues:

The latest list of recent doctoral dissertations pertaining to disability studies can be viewed at the following URL:

http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/researchresources/dissertations/index_html

Please share this information with your colleagues and students.

I welcome your comments and suggestions. This list is created directed from the hard copies of Dissertation Abstracts on a bimonthly basis and is intended for interested scholars world wide.

Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D.

History of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

412-6488927

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-11-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Caron, Simone. "'Killed by its Mother': Infanticide in Providence County, Rhode Island, 1870 to 1938," _Journal of Social History_ 44(1) (Fall 2010): 213-237.

Coco, Adrienne Phelps. "Diseased, Maimed, Mutilated: Categorizations of Disability and an Ugly Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,"_Journal of Social History_ 44(1)(Fall 2010): 23-37.

Hirshbein, Laura. "'We Mentally Ill Smoke a Lot': Identity, Smoking, and Mental Illness in America," _Journal of Social History_ 44(1)(Fall 2010): 7-21.

Martyr, Philippa. "A Lesson in Vigilance? Mental Health Nursing Training in Western Australia, 1903-1958," _Issues in Mental Health Nursing_ 31(11)(October 2010): 723-730.

Seidelman, Rhona D., Ilan Troen, and Shifra Shvarts. "'Healing' the Bodies and Souls of Immigrant Children: The Ringworm and Trachoma Institute, Sha'ar ha-Aliya, 1952-1960," _Journal of Israeli History_ 29(2)(September 2010): 191-211.

REVIEWS:

David A. Gerber reviewed Susan Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009) in _Journal of Social History_ 44(1)(Fall 2010): 273-275.

Julia Rodriguez reviewed Jonathan Ablard, _Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State 1880-1983_ (Ohio University Press 2008) in _Journal of Social History_ 44(1)(Fall 2010): 292-294.

Steven M. Beaudoin reviewed Anne T. Quartararo, _Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France_ (Gallaudet University Press 2008) in _Journal of Social History_ 44(1)(Fall 2010): 298-300.

Anthony Ellis reviewed Nina Taunton, _Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture_ (Routledge 2007) in _Renaissance Studies_ 24(5)(November 2010): 775-777.

Owen L. Roberts reviewed David C. Humphrey, _Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807-1872_ (Texas State Historical Association 2009) in _Southwestern Historical Quarterly_ (July 2010): [no pages, sorry].

Keith Volanto reviewed Heather Green Wooten, _The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown_ (Texas A&M University Press 2009) in _Southwestern Historical Quarterly_ (July 2010): [no pages, sorry].

NEW BOOKS:

Wendy J. Turner, ed. _Madness in Medieval Law and Custom_ (Brill 2010).

Contributions received this month from: Susan Burch, Michael Rembis, Kristina Richardson, Catherine Kudlick, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-10-02T06:51:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Amundson, Ron, and Akira Ruddle-Miyamoto. "A Wholesome Horror: The Stigmas of Leprosy in 19th Century Hawaii," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Barry, Colleen L., Haiden A. Huskamp, and Howard H. Goldman, "A Political History of Federal Mental Health and Addiction Insurance Parity," _Milbank Quarterly_ 88(3)(September 2010): 404-433.

Floyd, Barbara. "Hugh Gregory Gallagher's Splendid Reception," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Gobbo, Ken. "Dyslexia and Creativity: The Education and Work of Robert Rauschenberg," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Neumann, Boaz. "Being Prosthetic in the First World War and Weimar Germany," _Body & Society_ 16(2010): 93-126.

Olson, Sherry, Kevin Henry, Michele Jomphe, Kevin Schwartzman, and Paul Brassard, "Tracking Tuberculosis in the Past: The Use of Genealogical Evidence," _Journal of Historical Geography_ 36(3)(July 2010): 327-341.

Schweik, Susan. "Marshall P. Wilder and Disability Performance History," _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

REVIEWS:

Michael A. Rembis reviewed Susan Burch, ed., _Encyclopedia of American Disability History_ (Facts on File 2009) in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Alexis Martina reviewed Nadja Durbach's _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2010) in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(3/4)(2010): online at http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Charlotte A. Roberts reviewed Luke Demaitre, _Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body_ (Johns Hopkins University Press 2007), in _The Historian_ 72(30)(Fall 2010): 718-719.

Oliver Davis reviewed Alison Holland, _Excess and Transgression in Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction: The Discourse of Madness_ (Ashgate 2009), in _French Studies_ 64(4)(2010): 504-505.

Paul Berry reviewed Corinne Manning, ed., _Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages_ (University of South Wales Press 2008), in _International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education_ 57(3)(September 2010): 341-343.

Erica Lee reviewed Susan Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009), in _Law, Culture, and the Humanities_ 6(2010): 463-464.

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-09-10T09:23:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Haack, Kathleen, Ekkehardt Kumbier, and Sabine C. Herpertz. "Illnesses of the Will in 'Pre-Psychiatric' Times," _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2010): 261-277.

Hale, Elizabeth. "Disability and the Individual Talent: Adolescent Girlhood in the Pillars of the House and What Katy Did," _Women's Writing_ 17(2)(August 2010): 343-360.

Manning, Corinne. "'My Memory's Back!' Inclusive Learning Disability Research Using Ethics, Oral History, and Digital Storytelling," _British Journal of Learning Disabilities_ 38(3)(2010): 160-167.

REVIEWS:

Gerald N. Grob reviewed Christopher Payne, _Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals_ (MIT Press 2009), in _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2010): 365-366.

Laura M. Zucconi reviewed Lisa Appignanesi, _Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors_ (WW Norton and Co. 2008), in _Historian_ 72(2) (2010): 492-494.

Jaber F. Gubrium reviewed Jesse F. Ballenger, _Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History_ (Johns Hopkins University Press 2006), in _Aging and Mental Health_ 14(7)(2010): 888-889.

NEW BOOKS:

Ann Millett-Gallant, _The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art_ (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

Maureen Park, _Art in Madness: Dr. W. A. F. Browne's Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries_ (Dumfries & Galloway Health Board 2010).

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Iain Hutchison, Kathie Sheldon

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUCEMENT: H-Dis: Disability History Association notes

2010-08-09T14:22:00.000-07:00

From Penny L. Richards,

This morning I overhauled the "Recent Dissertations" page at the Disability History Association website. We're calling 2006-present "recent" at the DHA website, and will keep that rolling (so, next year the listings will cut off at 2007, etc.). If you have a recently completed doctoral dissertation that isn't listed, send me the cite in a similar format and I'll get it in there directly:

http://www.dishist.org/dissertations.html

While I'm here, if you're a graduate student working in disability history, don't forget about the DHA Graduate Student Scholarship, for help attending conferences. The due date for applications is September 10, 2010. See the whole announcement in the Spring 2010 newsletter:

http://www.dishist.org/newsletter.htm

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

President, Disability History Association

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-08-03T16:25:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Cornish, William. "Insanity and Mental Deficiency," _Oxford History of the Laws of England (Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs)_ (February 2010): 823-835.

Dorman, Anke. "Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences," _Journal for the Study of Judaism_ 41(3) (2010): 417-418.

Hodkinson, Alan. "Inclusive and Special Education in the English Educational System: Historical Perspectives, Recent Developments, and Future Challenges," _British Journal of Special Education_ 37(2010): 61-67.

Linker, Beth. "Shooting Disabled Soldiers: Medicine and Photography in World War I America," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 39(2)(2010): [no pages, sorry].

Mawdsley, Stephen E. "'Dancing on Eggs': Charles H. Bynum, Racial Politics, and the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis, 1938-1954," _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 84(2)(Summer 2010): 217-247.

REVIEWS:

Dorothea McEwan reviewed Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, eds., _Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900_ (Lund Humphries 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 23(2) (2010): 415-416.

Matthew Smith reviewed Allison C. Carey, _On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America_ (Temple University Press 2009) in _Social History of Medicine_ 23(2)(2010): 447-448.

Kenneth Ögren reviewed Petteri Pietikainen, _Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden_ (Brill 2007) in _Journal of the History of the Neurosciences_ 19(3)(July 2010): 272-275.

Saara Jäntti reviewed Lisa Appignanesi, _Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present_ (Virago 2008) and Kirsi Tuohela, _Huhtikuun Tekstit. Kolmen Naisen Koettu Ja Kirjoitettu Melankolia 1870-1900_ [April Texts: Three Women Writers Encountering Melacholia 1870-1900], in "Telling and Retelling Stories of Women, Madness, and Feminism," _NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research_ 18(3)(September 2010): 210-216.

NEW BOOKS:

Edward Wheatley, _Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability_ (University of Michigan Press 2010).
http://press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915892

DISSERTATIONS:

Mary Shelley Trent (PhD, UC-Irvine 2010): "Enigmatic Bachelors: Masculinity, Girlhood, and Vision in the ARt of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger"

Advisor: Cecile Whiting

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Kim Nielsen, Beth Linker

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-07-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Amundson, Ron, and Akira Ruddle-Miyamoto. "Holier than Thou: Stigma and the Kokuas of the Kalaupapa Settlement," _Review of Disability Studies_ 6(2010): 30-41.

Brozgal, Lia Nicole. "Blindness, the Visual, and Ekphrastic Impulses: Albert Memmi Colours in the Lines," _French Studies_ 64(3) (2010): 317-328.

Doyle, Dennis. "'Racial Differences Have to be Considered': Lauretta Bender, Bellevue Hospital, and the African-American Psyche, 1936-52," _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2)(June 2010): 206-223.

Howe, Blake. "Paul Wittgenstein and the Performance of Disability," Journal of Musicology_ 27(2)(2010): 135-180.

Mason, Jean S. "Walker Percy's _The Gramercy Winner_: A Memoir of the American Tuberculosis Experience," _Journal of American Culture_ 33(2)(June 2010): 107-120.

Olson, Marilyn L. "'Halt, Blind, Lame, Sick, and Lazy': Care of the Poor in Cedar County, Iowa, 1857-1890," _Annals of Iowa_ 69(Spring 2010): 131-172.

Piuva, Katarina. "The Meaning of Normality: The Controversy about the Mental Health Campaign in Sweden 1969," _Scandinavian Journal of History_ 35(2)(2010): 198-216.

Reagan, Leslie J. "Rashes, Rights, and Wrongs in the Hospital and in the Courtroom: German Measles, Abortion, and Malpractice before Roe and Doe," _Law & History Review_ 27(Summer 2009): 241-279.

Simonsen, Jane. "'The Large Household': Architecture and Civic Identity at the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant," _Annals of Iowa_ 69(Spring 2010): 173-206.

Ziegler, Mary. "Eugenic Feminism: Mental Hygiene, the Women's Movement, and the Campaign for Eugenic Legal Reform, 1900-1935," _Harvard Journal of Law and Gender_ 31(Winter 2008): 211-235.

REVIEWS:

Regina Morantz-Sanchez reviwed Mark S. Micole, _Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness_ (Harvard University Press 2008) in _Journal of American History_ 97(1)(June 2010): 149-150.

Alan M. Kraut reviewed Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009), in _Journal of American History_ 97(1) (June 2010): 214-215.

Laura M. Zucconi reviewed Lisa Appignanesi, _Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors_ (WW Norton 2008) in _The Historian_ 72(2)(June 2010): 492-494.

Hannah Tweed reviewed Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009), in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(2) (2010): online here: http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Kodi Scheer reviewed Brad Gooch, _Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor_ (Little, Brown 2009) in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 30(2) (2010): online here: http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Frederick Burwick reviewed Edward Larrissy, _The Blind and Blindness in the Literature of the Romantic Period_ (Edinburgh University Press 2007), in _Romanticism_ 16(2)(2010): 220-225.

DISSERTATIONS:

Fredric Mintz (PhD, University of California, Berkeley 2010): "Hard Rock Miners' Phthisis in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain: From Diagnosis to Compensation" Advisor: Thomas Laqueur

Robert I. Goler (PhD, George Mason University 2009): "The Symbol of the Veteran Amputee in American Culture" Advisor: Mark Jacobs

Hyung Wook Park (PhD, University of Minnesota 2009): "Refiguring Old Age: Shaping Scientific Research on Senescence, 1900-1960" Advisors: John M. Eyler and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Ann T. Hamill (PhD, University of Cincinnati 2008): "Two Moral Universes: The Social Problem of Idiots from 1845-1855 and Mentally Retarded Sons and Daughters from 1945 to 1955" Advisor: Annulla Linders

Michael D. Fiorello (PhD, Trinity International University 2008): "The Physically Disabled in Ancient Israel According to the Old Testament and Ancient Near East Sources"Advisor: Richard Averbeck

Contributions received this month from: Dan Wilson, John Erlen, Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-Hum)

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: New NARA reference paper on disability topics

2010-07-08T09:14:00.000-07:00

From: Jean Bergey jean.bergey@gallaudet.edu

[xpost from DS-Hum]

The National Archives and Records Administration has developed a Reference Information Paper (RIP) for researching disability related topics. This organizational document can help researchers wade through the mountains of historic material of the U.S. Government.

See the link below to the 109 page document by Archivist Frank Serene.

http://www.archives.gov/research/disabilities/index.pdf

The paper can also be accessed by going to http://www.archives.gov/ search down the right hand column to Research and Order then click on Publications; again search down the right hand column to find By Type and click on Reference Information Papers. The title is "Federal Records, Presidential Libraries, and Donated Materials Relating to Disabilities in the Holdings of the National Archives and Records Admistration."

Contact information at NARA:

Frank H. Serene, Archivist

National Archives and Records Administration

8601 Adelphi Road

College Park, MD 20740

301-837-2971

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-06-10T23:12:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Bakker, Nelleke. "Before Ritalin: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands," _Paedagogica Historica_ 46(3)(2010): 383-401.

Brenner, Elma. "Recent Perspectives on Leprosy in Medieval Western Europe," _History Compass_ 8(5)(May 2010): 388-406.

Monk, Lee-Ann. "Exploiting Patient Labour at Kew Cottages, Australia, 1887-1950," _British Journal of Learning Disabilities_ 38(2)(2010): 86-94.

Salmón, Fernando. "From Patient to Text? Narratives of Pain and Madness in Medical Scholasticism," in Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance, eds., _Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval and Earl Modern Europe_ (Micrologus Library 2010).

Sweeney, John. "Attitudes of Catholic Religious Orders Towards Children and Adults with an Intellectual Disability in Postcolonial Ireland," _Nursing Inquiry_ 17(2)(2010): 95-110.

Vanobbergen, Bruno, and Nancy Vansieleghem. "Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: The Sea Hospital of the City of Paris in Berck- sur-Mer and the French War on Tuberculosis," _Paedagogica Historica_ 46(3)(2010): 325-340.

REVIEWS:

Lauren Stokes reviewed Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, _Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900_ (Lund Humphries 2009) at the blog _H-Madness_ (24 May 2010): http://historypsychiatry.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/review-madness-modernity-mental-illness-and-the-visual-arts-in-vienna-in-1900/

Jason Crouthamel reviewed Gregory M. Thomas, _Treating The Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatrists in France, 1914-1940_ (Louisiana State University Press 2009), at the blog _H- Madness_ (14 May 2010): http://historypsychiatry.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/review-treating-the-trauma-of-the-great-war-%E2%80%93-soldiers-civilians-and-psychiatrists-in-france-1914-1940/

Tony Jewell reviewed Ann Shaw and Carole Reeves, _The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium_ (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009) in _Journal of Public Health_ 32(2)(2010): 291-292.

NEW BOOKS:

Alex Lubet, _Music, Disability, and Society_ (Temple University Press, December 2010; now available to preorder in paperback and cloth, or as an e-book).

Edward Wheatley, _Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability_ (University of Michigan Press, 2010).

Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (New York University Press; paperback edition available August 2010).

DISSERTATION:

Elman, Julie Passanante (PhD, George Washington University 2009): "Medicalizing Edutainment: Enforcing Disability in the Teen Body, 1970-2000"

Contributions received this month from: Dan Wilson, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-05-03T11:23:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Grue, Lars. "Eugenics and Euthanasia: Then and Now," _Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research_ 12(1)(March 2010): 33-45.

Kleege, Georgina. "Dialogues with the Blind: Literary Depictions of Blindness and Visual Art," _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 4(1)(2010): [no pages, sorry].

Marchbanks, Paul. "A Costly Morality: Dependency Care and MEntal Difference in the Novels of the Brontë Sisters," _Journal of LIterary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 4(1)(2010): [no pages, sorry].

Yannielli, "George Thompson among the Africans: Empathy, Authority, and Insanity in the Age of Abolition," _Journal of American History_ 96(4)(March 2010): 979-1000.

REVIEWS:

Evelyn S. Johnson reviewed Scot Danforth, _The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities_ (Peter Lang 2009), in _Education Review_ (23 March 2010): http://edrev.asu.edu/

James Chalmers reviewed Victoria F. Nourse, _In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics_ (WW Norton 2008), in _Edinburgh Law Review_ 14(2)(2010): 354-355.

NEW BOOK:

Larry M. Logue and Peter Blanck, _Race, Ethnicity, and the Treatment of Disability in Post-Civil War America_ (Cambridge University Press 2010).

DISSERTATIONS:

Jennifer Elizabeth Clark (PhD, Harvard University 2010): "Making ALS Matter: Disease Activism and Disease Identity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 1850-2000"

Advisor: Allan M. Brandt

Fabien Simonis (PhD, Princeton University 2010): "Mad Acts, Mad Speech, and Mad People in Late Imperial Chinese Law and Medicine"

Advisor: Susan Naquin

Contributions received this month from: Kim Nielsen, Kristen D. Nawrotzki

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

RESOURCE: Veterans Affairs Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

2010-04-16T09:59:00.000-07:00

Veterans Affairs Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/veterans_affairs/index.html

After the devastating aftermath of the Civil War, the United States government decided to create a number of homes for disabled Union veterans. Eventually, eleven homes would be built, and they were eventually incorporated into the Veterans Bureau in 1930. This most welcome Shared Heritage Travel itinerary offered by the National Park Service creates a roadmap for visitors who wish to learn about this rather compelling aspect of American history. The site contains nine separate sections, including "Essays", "List of Sites", and "Maps". The three essays cover the history of the National Homes and daily life at the homes throughout the 19th century. Moving on, the "List of Sites" area contains links to additional information about the various homes, which are in places like Dayton, Milwaukee, and Togus, Maine. Overall, this is a great way to learn about a forgotten aspect of the country's history, and it might just inspire a future road trip.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-04-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Berberi, Tammy. "A Rhapsodist at Mid-Century: Refiguring Disability in the Poetry of Tristan Corbiere," _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 3(1)(2009): 51-66.

Bondevik, Hilde. "Who's Afraid of Amalie Skram? Hysteria and Rebellion in Amalie Skram's Novels of Mental Hospitals," in Knut Stene-Johansen and Frederik Tygstrup, eds., _Illness in Context_ (Rodopi, 2010).

Garton, Stephen. "Criminal Propensities: Psychiatry, Classification, and Imprisonment in New York State, 1916-1940," _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)(April 2010): 79-97.

Hasson, Ezra. "Capacity to Marry: Law, Medicine, and Conceptions of Insanity," _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)(April 2010): 1-20.

Hirshbein, Laura D. "Gender, Age, and Diagnosis: The Rise and Fall of Involutional Melancholia in American Psychiatry, 1900-1980," _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 83(Winter 2009): 710-745.

Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh. "The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Study of Disability in Modern Iran," _Iranian Studies_ 43(2)(2010): 167-195.

Kinder, John M. "Iconography of Injury: Encountering the Wounded Soldier's Body in American Poster Art and Photography of World War I," in Pearl James, ed., _Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture_ (University of Nebraska Press 2009).

Newman, Etan. "For Whose Benefit? Social Control and theConstruction of Providence's Dexter Asylum," _Historian_ 72(1)(2010): 96-121.

Thalassis, Nafsika. "Useless Soldiers: The Dilemma of Discharging Mentally Unfit Soldiers during the First World War," _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)(April 2010): 98-115.

NEW BOOK:

Franck Collard and Evelyne Samama, _Handicaps et sociétés dans l'histoire: L'estropié, l'aveugle et le paralytique de l'Antiquité aux temps modernes_ [Disabilities and Societies in History: The Lame, the Blind, and the Paralytic from Antiquity to Modern Times] (Paris: L'Harmattan 2010).

NEW MASTER'S THESIS:

Janet Duros McClearen (MA, University of Nebraska at Omaha 2009): "Father A. J. Andeweg, Hussein M. Ismail, and the Development of Deaf Education in Lebanon"

Advisor: Moshe Gershovich
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1922844341

REVIEWS:

Claire D. Clark and Howard I. Kushner reviewed Alice Wexler, _The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of Genetic Disease_ (Yale University Press 2008), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 65(2)(2010): 284-286.

Gregory Michael Dorr reviewed Rebecca M. Kluchin, _Fit to be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980_ (Rutgers University Press 2009), in _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)(2010):
185-187.

Elizabeth Toon reviewed Emily K. Abel and Saskia K. Subramanian, _After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors_ (New York University Press 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)
(2010): 187-188.

John Parascandola reviewed Gayle Davis, _"The Cruel Madness of Love": Sex, Syphilis, and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930_ (Rodopi 2008) in _Social History of Medicine_ 23(1)(2010): 204-205.

Claudia Stein reviewed Stuart Clark, _Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture_ (Cambridge University Press 2007), in _History Workshop Journal_ 69(1)(2010): 245-253.

Elizabeth Malcolm, "Psychiatry in Colonial Australia: Mad Women and Their Attendants in Victoria's Asylums, 1848-1888," _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2010): 96-101, reviews Catherine Coleborne, _Reading 'Madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888_ (API Network Perth 2007), and Lee-Ann Monk, _Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum_ (Rodopi 2008).

Akihito Suzuki reviewed Leonard Smith, _Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830_ (Routledge 2007) in _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2010): 104-106.

Trevor Turner reviewed David Healy, _Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder_ (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008), in _History of Psychiatry_ 21(2010): 106-108.

Contributions received this month from: Susan Koppelman, Jon Erlen, Dan Wilson, Kristina Richardson

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-03-02T09:13:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Atherton, Martin. "A feeling as much as a place: leisure, deaf clubs and the British deaf community," _Journal of Leisure Studies_ 28(4) (2009): 443–454.

Atherton, Martin. "Choosing to be deaf: issues of identity in the British deaf community," in A. Brown, ed., _Historical Perspectives on Social Identities_ (Cambridge Scholars Press 2009): 129-136.

Earl, Dave. "Help For Children and Their Families: Presenting 'Subnormal' and 'Spastic' Children to the Public in 1950s New South Wales," _Antithesis_ 19(2009): 154 - 165.

Garden, Rebecca. "Telling Stories about Illness and Disability: The Limits and Lessons of Narrative," _Perspectives in Biology and Medicine_ 53(1)(Winter 2010): 121-135.

Jones, Simon R. "Re-expanding the Phenomenology of Hallucinations: Lessons from Sixteenth-Century Spain," _Mental Health, Religion, and Culture_ 13(2)(March 2010): 187-208.

Mann, Michael W. "The Epileptic Seizure and the Mystery of Death in Christian Painting," _Epilepsy and Behavior_ 17(2)(2010): 139-146.

Singer, Julie. "Toward a Transhuman Model of Medieval Disability," _Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies_ 1(1/2)(2010): 1-7.

Toms, J. "Mind the Gap: MIND, the Mental Hygiene Movement, and the Trapdoor in Measurements of Intellect," _Journal of Intellectual Disability Research_ 54(s1)(2010): 16-27.

REVIEWS:

Scot Danforth reviewed Robert L. Osgood, _The History of Special Education: A Struggle for Equality in American Public Schools_ (Praeger 2007), in _History of Education Quarterly_ 50(1)(2010): 109-111.

Frances Spalding reviewed the exhibit "Eighteenth-Century Blues: Exploring the Melancholy Mind" (at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 21 June-31 August 2008), in _Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies_ 33(1)(2010): 117-118.

Saul Dubow reviewed Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully, _Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography_ (Princeton University Press 2009), in _Slavery and Abolition_ 31(1)(March 2010): 146-148.

Pat Bradley reviewed Mark Jukes, ed., _Learning Disability Nursing Practise: Origins, Perspectives and Practise_ (Quay Books 2009) in _British Journal of Learning Disabilities_ 38(1)(2010): 77-78.

NEW BOOKS:

Allison Carey, _On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in 20th Century America_ (Temple University 2009).

Thomas Couser, _Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Living_ (University of Michigan Press 2010).

Submissions received this month from: Allison Carey, Martin Atherton, Kristina Richardson

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-02-02T09:26:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Hirschmann, Nancy J. "Stem Cells, Disability, and Abortion: A Feminist Approach to Equal Citizenship," in Linda McClain and Joanna Grossman, eds., _Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship_(Cambridge University Press 2009).

Hutchinson, John M. "What Was Tad Lincoln's Speech Problem?" _Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association_ 30(1)(Winter 2009): 35-51.

Sheldon, Peter. "Silicosis, Mechanisation, and the Demise of the Sydney Rockchoppers' Union, 1908-18," _Labour History_ 97(November 2009): 13-36.

REVIEWS:

Christopher Krentz reviewed Anne T. Quartararo, _Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France_ (Gallaudet University Press 2008) in _The American Historical Review_ 114 (5) (December 2009): 1547-1548.

Rosemary Betterton reviewed Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, eds., _Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delicti_ (Ashgate 2009), in _The Art Book_ 17(1)(2010): 39-40.

Nancy M. Wingfield reviewed Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling, eds.,_Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940_ (Central European University Press 2007), in _Journal of Contemporary History_ 45(2010): 212-214.

Michael Ashley Stein reviewed Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner, _Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson_ (University of North Carolina Press 2007) in _Law and History Review_ 27(2)(Summer 2009): 470-472.

Robert J. Steinfeld reviewed Jamie L. Bronstein, _Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain_ (Stanford University Press 2007), in _Law and History Review_ 27(1)(Spring 2009): 211-213.

Kelly Lytle Hernández reviewed Emily K. Abel, _Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles_ (Rutgers University Press 2007), in _Western Historical Quarterly_ 40(1)(Spring 2009): 95-96.

Michael Quinlan reviewed Humphrey McQueen, _Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers Battle for Health & Safety_ (Ginninderra Press, Adelaide, 2009), in _Labour History_ 97(November 2009): 213-215.

Ann Hardy reviewed Lee-Ann Monk, _Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum_ (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2008), in _Labour History_ 96(May 2009): 244-245.

NEW BOOKS:

Sheryl Feinstein and Nicole C. D'Errico. _Tanzanian Women in their Own Words: Stories of Disability and Illness_ (Lexington Books 2009).

Jonathan M. Metzl, _The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease_ (Beacon Press 2010).

Contributions received this month from Christopher Krentz, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kathleen Sheldon

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2010-01-01T11:22:00.001-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2009-2010). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Goodheart, Lawrence B. "From Cure to Custodianship of the Insane Poor in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 65(2010): 106-130.

Lester, David. "The Reasons for Suicide: An Analysis of the Diary of Arthur Inman," _Death Studies_ 34(1)(January 2010): 54-70.

Miron, Janet. "'In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired': Public Visits to New York's Asylums in the Nineteenth Century," _Clio Medica/ Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine_ 86(2009): 243-266.

Nilsson, Roddy. "Creating the Swedish Juvenile Delinquent: Criminal Policy, Science, and Institutionalization, c1930-1970," _Scandinavian Journal of History_ 34(4)(December 2009): 354-375.

O'Brien, Gerald V., and Meghan E. Bundy, Meghan E. "Reaching Beyond the 'Moron': Eugenic Control of Secondary Disability Groups," _Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare_ 36(2009): 153-171.

Oulton, Carolyn W. de la L. "'the shadow which I call pain': Mary Chomondeley and the Dilemma of Bodily Weakness," _Life Writing_ 6(3) (December2009): 303-312.

Smith, Leonard. "'The Keeper Must Himself be Kept': Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750-1850," _Clio Medica/Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine_ 86(2009): 199-222.

REVIEWS:

Jeanne Kisacky reviewed Carla B. Yanni, _The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States_ (University of Minnesota 2007), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 65(2010): 135-137.

Ian Dowbiggin reviewed Paul A. Lombardo, _Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell_ (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 65(2010): 137-139.

Kirsten E. Gardner reviewed Elizabeth Lane Furdell, _Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin_ (Brill Press 2009), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 65(2010): 142-143.

Mariano Ben Plotkin reviewed Jonathan D. Ablard, _Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983_ (Ohio University Press 2008) in _Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology_ 14(2)(November2009): 508-510.

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Gerald O'Brien

compiled by

Penny L. Richards

PhD Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2009 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium

2009-12-16T09:56:00.000-08:00

A number of Federal agencies collect statistical data on the population of people with disabilities to improve and support disability related programs and services. The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics, which is supported by a Department of Education grant, has complied this data into one resource, the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium. The first edition, released in October, includes statistics from Federal sources and surveys on disability prevalence, population size, including break-downs by state and disability type, employment and earnings, education, health and health care coverage, rehabilitation, and participation in benefit programs. The Center plans to update the compendium on a yearly basis to capture new or recurring data collections and demographic statistics.

The entire Compendium can be downloaded as a PDF or browsed by section on the Web.

See http://disabilitycompendium.org/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-12-14T11:29:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Halliwell, Martin. "'No Place to Go, See': Blindness and World War II Demobilization Narratives," _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 3(2)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

Hickman, Clare. "Cheerful Prospects and Tranquil Restoration: The Visual Experience of Landscape as Part of the Therapeutic Regime of the British Asylum, 1800-60," _History of Psychiatry_ 20(1)(December 2009): 425-441.

Kelly, Brendan D. "Criminal Insanity in 19th-century Ireland, Europe, and the United States: Cases, Contexts, and Controversies," _International Journal of Law and Psychiatry_ 32(6)(November-December 2009): 362-368.

Larner, A. J. "Margiad Evans (1909-1958): A History of Epilepsy in a Creative Writer," _Epilepsy & Behavior_ 16(4)(2009): 596-598.

McCulloch, Jock. "Hiding a Pandemic: Dr. G. W. H. Schepers and the Politics of Silicosis in South Africa," _Journal of Southern African Studies_ 35(4)(2009): 835-848.

Tilley, Heather. "Frances Browne, the 'Blind Poetess': Toward a Poetics of Blind Writing," _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 3(2)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

Vandeventer Pearman, Tory. "Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Blinding, and the Supernatural in Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal," _Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies_ 3(2)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

REVIEWS:

James E. Moran reviewed Susan Piddock, _A Space of their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia, and Tasmania_ (Springer 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 20(1)(December 2009): 502.

Edward Shorter reviewed Roger Bartra, _Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain_ (University of Wales Press 2008), in _History of Psychiatry_ 20(1)(December 2009): 505.

Ivan Crozier reviewed Richard C. Keller, _Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa_ (Chicago University Press 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 20(1)(December 2009): 506-508.

Kate Blackmore reviewed Marina Larsson, _Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War_ (University of New South Wales Press 2009), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(3)(2009): 622-624.

Louise Hill Curth reviewed Elizabeth Lane Furdell, _Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin_ (Brill 2009), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(3)(2009): 636-637.

Iain Hutchison reviewed Gayle Davis, _'The Cruel Madness of Love': Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930_ (Rodopi 2008), in _Journal of Scottish Historical Studies_ 29(2)(2009): 145-147.

R. A. R. Edwards reviewed John Vickrey Van Cleve, ed., _The Deaf History Reader_ (Gallaudet University Press 2007) and Harlan Lane, ed., _The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education_ (Gallaudet University Press 2006) in _History of Education Quarterly_ 49(4)(2009): 553-555.

James W. Trent reviewed Corinne Manning, _Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages_ (University of New South Wales Press 2008), in _Disability Studies Quarterly_ 29(4)(2009): online at http://dsq-sds.org/

NEW BOOKS:

Deirdre O'Connell, _The Ballad of Blind Tom: Slave Pianist, America's Lost Musical Genius_ (Overlook Press 2009).

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-11-17T09:07:00.000-08:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Andersen, Lars Schädler. "The Discovery of Professional Risk: Social Science and the Industrial Accident in Denmark, 1880-1900," _Ideas in History_ 4(1)(2009).

Curran, Andrew. "Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences," _History and Theory_ 48(3)(2009): 151-179.

Rohmann, Gregor. "The Invention of Dancing Mania: Frankish Christianity, Platonic Cosmology, and Bodily Expressions in Sacred Space," _The Medieval History Journal_ 12(1)(2009): 13-45.

Woloshyn, Tania Anne. "La Cote d'Azur: The terre privilegie of Invalids and Artists, c1860-1900," _French Cultural Studies_ 20(4)(2009): 383-402.

REVIEWS:

Jeff D. Corrigan reviewed Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen, _Evolution of a MIssouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006_ (University of Missouri Press 2007), in _Oral History Review_ 36(2)(2009): 273-275.

Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss reviewed Carolyn Smith-Morris, _Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival_ (University of Arizona Press 2006), in _Oral HIstory Review_ 36(2)(2009): 300-302.

Emma Moreton reviewed Donald E. Hardy, _The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction_ (University of South Carolina Press 2007), in _Language and Literature_ 18(2009): 396-399.

NEW BOOK:

Daniel J. Wilson, _Polio: Biographies of Disease_ (Greenwood Press 2009).

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-10-01T17:05:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Barfoot, Michael. "The 1815 Act to Regulate Madhouses in Scotland: A Reinterpretation," _Medical History_ 53(1)(January 2009): 57-76.

Berton, Mireille. "Cinéma et sciences du psychisme en 1900: la névrose, la paramnésie, la transe," _Gesnerus_ 66(1)(2009): 103-120. [In French; title is translated "Film and Sciences of the Mind in 1900: Neurosis, Paramnesia, Trance"]

Brittain, Ian, and Yeshayahu Hutzler. "A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Development of Sports for Persons with Physical Disability in Israel," _Sport in Society_ 12(8)(2009): 1075-1088.

Getz, Lynn M. "'A Strong Man of Large Human Sympathy': Dr. Patrick L. Murphy and the Challenges of Nineteenth-Century Asylum Psychiatry in North Carolina," _North Carolina Historical Review_ 56(1)(January 2009): 32-58.

Jensen, Joan M. "Silver City Health Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century: A Case Study," _New Mexico Historical Review_ 84(Summer 2009): 321-361.

Lansing, Michael J., "'Salvaging the Man Power of America': Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans during World War I," _Environmental History_ 14(Jan. 2009): 32–57.

Longmore, Paul K. "Disability Rights Activism," in Heather Thompson, ed., _Speaking Out with Many Voices: Documenting American Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s_ (Prentice-Hall 2009).

Robertson, Jo. "The Leprosy Asylum in India: 1886-1947," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(2009): 429-473.

Turda, Marius. "'To End the Degeneration of a Nation': Debates on Eugenic Sterilization in Interwar Romania," _Medical History_ 53(1) (January 2009): 77-104.

NEW BOOKS:

Verstraete, P. & Hellinckx, W. (Eds.) (2009). Met een handicap naar school: Het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van het onderwijs aan kinderen en jongeren met een handicap (1750-1970). Ieper: Stedelijk Onderwijsmuseum [Translated into English - With a disability to school: The emergence and development of educational initiatives for children and youth with a disability (1750-1970)].

Zina Weygand, _The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille_ (Stanford University Press)---now available in an English translation, and as an electronic book through Bookshare.org

Susan Burch, ed., _Encyclopedia of American Disability History_ (Facts on File, 2009; 3 vol.).

Geoffrey Reaume, _Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940_, Second Edition [originally published in 2000 by Oxford U Press Canada] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Nadja Durbach, _Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture_ (University of California Press 2009).

REVIEWS:

Camilla Obel and Roslyn Kerr reviewed Steve Bailey, _Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement_ (John Wiley 2008) and P. David Howe, _The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement--Through an Anthropological Lens_ (Routledge 2008), in _Leisure Studies_ 28(4) (October 2009): 497-500.

Anna Crozier reviewed Richard C. Keller, _Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa_ (University of Chicago Press 2007), in _Africa_ 79(3)(August 2009): 471-472.

Geoffrey Reaume reviewed Benjamin Reiss, _Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture_ (University of Chicago Press, 2008), in _The American Historical Review_ 114:3 (June
2009): 758-759.

Gerald N. Grob reviewed David Healy, _Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder_ (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(4)(2009): 556-558.

DISSERTATIONS:

Aleksandra Pfau, "Madness in the realm: Narratives of mental illness in late medieval France" (PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2008).

Audra R. Jennings, "With Minds Fixed on the Horrors of War: Liberalism and Disability Activism, 1940-1960" (PhD, Ohio State University 2008).

Sarah Frances Rose, "No Right to be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1850-1930" (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago 2008).

Contributions received this month from: Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-HUM), Pieter Verstraete, Paul Longmore. Catherine Kudlick, Susan Burch, Daniel Wilson, Kristina Richardson, Geoffrey Reaume, John Erlen, Kim Nielsen

compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-08-04T08:51:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Arnold, David. "Diabetes in the Tropics: Race, Place and Class in India, 1880-1965," _Social History of Medicine_ 22(2009): 245-261.

Darcy, Jane. "Religious Melancholy in the Romantic Period: William Cowper as Test Case," _Romanticism_ 15(2)(July 2009): 144-155.

Devinsky, Janna, Daniel Lowenstein, and Richard McElrea, "Harold Shaw and the Ross Sea Party: Epilepsy in the Antarctic," _Journal of the History of the Neurosciences_ 18(3)(July 2009): 320-328.

Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich, "A Mirror for Deaf Ears? A Medieval Mystery," _Electronic British Library Journal_ (2008)article 9: 1-17.http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2008articles/article9.html

Galusca, Roxana. "From Fictive Ability to National Identity: Disability, Medical Inspection and Public Health Regulations on Ellis Island," _Cultural Critique_ 72(Spring 2009): 137-163.

Lyle, Louise. "French Perspectives on Eugenics as Seen Through Selected Writings of Georges Duhamel," _French Cultural Studies_ 20(3) (2009): 257-272.

Martinez-Perez, Jose. "Consolidando el modelo medico de discapacidad: sobre la poliomielitis y la constitucion de la traumatologia y ortopedia como especialidad en Espana (1930-1950)" ["Consolidating the medical model of disability:on poliomyelitis and the constitution of orthopedic surgery and orthopaedics as a specialty in Spain (1930-1950)"], _Asclepio, Revista de la Medicina y de la Cinecia_ LXI (enero-junio 2009): 117-42. [in Spanish]

Meeuf, Russell, "John Wayne as 'Supercrip': Disabled Bodies and the Construction of 'Hard' Masculinity in The Wings of Eagles," _Cinema Journal_ 48(Winter 2009): 88–113.

Peers, Danielle. "(Dis)empowering Paralympic Histories: "Absent Athletes and Disabling Discourses," _Disability & Society_ 24(5) (2009): 653-665.

Rogers, Naomi. "Polio Chronicles: Warm Springs and Disability Politics in the 1930s," _Asclepio, Revista de la Medicina y de la Cinecia_ LXI (enero-junio 2009): 143-174.

Tausiet, Maria. "Taming Madness: Moral Discourse and Allegory in Counter-Reformation Spain," _History_ 34(315)(2009): 279-278.

Wilgus, Jack, and Beverly Wilgus. "Face to Face with Phineas Gage," _Journal of the History of Neurosciences_ 18(3)(July 2009): 340-345.

Wilson, Daniel J. "And they shall walk: ideal versus reality in polio rehabilitation in the United States," _Asclepio, Revista de la Medicina y de la Cinecia_ LXI (enero-junio 2009): 175-192.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Suzannah Biernoff reviewed Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, eds., _Art, Sex, and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti_ (Ashgate 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(2009): 407-409.

Michael Mezzano Jr. reviewed Mark A. Largent, _Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilizations in the United States_ (Rutgers UP 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(2009): 409-410.

Akinobu Takabayashi reviewed Lee-Ann Monk, _Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum_ (Rodopi 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(2009): 427-428.

NEW BOOKS:

Taylor, Steven J., _Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors_ (Syracuse University Press, 2009).

Mooney, Graham, and Jonathan Reinarz, ed. _Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting_ (Clio Medica 86)(Rodopi 2009).

Contributions received this month from: Kristina Richardson, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri (via DS-HUM), John Erlen, Daniel Wilson

compiled byPenny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

RESOURCE: Abnormal Website

2009-07-14T10:32:00.000-07:00

I suggest a look at this website...it's quite interesting to expanding our understanding of disability...

http://www.scientificmodelofdisability.co.uk/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-06-07T22:00:00.000-07:00

Introduction: About once a month (supply allowing), we post a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors).

ARTICLES:

Kirby, Stephanie, and Wendy Madsen. "Institutionalised Isolation: Tuberculosis Nursing at Westwood Sanatorium, Queensland, Australia, 1919-55," _Nursing Inquiry_ 16(2)(2009): 122-132.

Mollerhoj, Jette. "Encountering Hysteria: Doctors' and Patients' Perspectives on Hysteria in Denmark, 1875-1918," _History of Psychiatry_ 20(2009): 163-183.

Vanobbergen, Bruno. "Changing perspectives on the child at risk at the end of the nineteenth century: The Belgian Maritime Hospital Roger de Grimberghe (1884-1914) as a space of inclusion and exclusion," _Disability and Society_ 24(4)(2009): 425-436.

REVIEWS:

Ronnie Johnston reviewed Jamie L. Bronstein, _Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth- Century Britain_ (Stanford UP 2008), in _English Historical Review_ 124(508)(2009): 735-736.

Kacie Glenn reviewed Susan M. Schweik, _The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public_ (NYU Press 2009) in _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ 55(36) (May 15, 2009):

online here: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i36/36b01801.htm

Gerald N. Grob reviewed Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, _The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914_ (Routledge 2006), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(3)(2009): 379-381.

Liah Greenfeld reviewed Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling, eds., _Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom_ (Routledge 2006), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(3)(2009): 396-398.

Susan J. Wurtzburg reviewed Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner, _Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson_ (University of North Carolina Press 2007), in _Oral History Review_ 36(1)(2009): 153-156.

Hugh Freeman reviewed Edward Shorter and David Healy, _Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness_ (Rutgers UP 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 20(2009): 249.

BOOKS:

Gabriela Brimmer, _Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices_ (UPNE/Brandeis University Press 2009).

John C. Burnham, _Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age_ (University of Chicago Press 2009).

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, _Staring: How We Look_ (Oxford UP 2009).

DISSERTATIONS:

Richardson, Kristina L. (PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2008): "Blighted Bodies and Physical Difference in Cairo, Damascus and Mecca, 1400-1550"

Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina (PhD, University of Minnesota 2008): "Faces of Depression: A Study of Antidepressant Advertisements in the American and British Journals of Psychiatry, 1960-2004"

Fratz, Deborah Mae (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008): "Disabled Subjects: Disability, Gender, and Ethical Agency in Victorian Realism"

Contributions received this month from: Susan Schweik, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Kristina RIchardson, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUCEMENT: The University of California Center for Special Education, Disabilities, & Developmental Risk

2009-05-06T13:56:00.000-07:00

The faculty steering committee has constituted itself with the charge of leading the UC system in establishing a California-wide Center for Research in Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk (SPEDDR) as a Multi-Campus Research Unit that will unify and solidify UC resources. Primary aims of the Center are to enhance the University of California’s ability to attract from a national pool of talented students, win large extramural grants, improve national visibility of UC efforts, and enhance the doctoral preparation of the next generation of research, teacher education, and other related public service doctorates. Already, UCSB, UCR, UCSD, and UCLA and the UC Office of the President have each made ongoing financial commitments to the Center, and UCD and UCB have indicated their support.

http://ucspeddr.education.ucsb.edu/

ANNOUCEMENT: Access to "Autism Research

2009-05-06T13:48:00.000-07:00

The International Society for Autism Research's journal - "Autism Research" is available for a limited time to all libraries on a complimentary basis. If you would like your institution to carry this journal please ask your librarian to email optinaccess@wiley.co.uk for more details and to register for complimentary online access to Autism Research. This is a time limited offer... and a great way to support the Society.

For more information on the journal, visit: www.autismresearchjournal.com

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-05-04T10:53:00.001-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2008-2009). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Amsing, Hilda T. A. and Fedor H. deBeer, "Selecting Children with Mental Disabilities: A Dutch Conflict over the Demarcation of Expertise in the 1950s," _Paedagogica Historica_ 45(1&2)(2009): 235-250.

Jones, Ross. "Removing Some of the Dust from the Wheels of Civilization: William Ernest Jones and the 1928 Commonwealth Survey of Mental Deficiency," _Australian Historical Studies_ 40(1)(March 2009): [no pages, sorry].

Kudlick, Catherine J. "Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott, and Youth At Risk: Lessons from the New Paradigm of Disability," _Paedagogica Historica_ 45(1&2)(2009): 37-49.

Martins, Catarina S. "'Do You Hear with your Ears or with your Eyes?': The Education of Deaf Pupils at Casa Pia de Lisboa (c1820-1950)," _Paedagogica Historica_ 45(1&2)(2009): 103-116.

Olyan, Saul M. "The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics," _Journal of Hebrew Scriptures_ 9(14)(2009): online here as a PDF: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_116.pdf

Symeonidou, Simoni. "The Experience of Disability Activism through the Development of the Disability Movement: How do Disabled Activists Find their Way in Politics," _Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research_ 11(1)(March 2009): 17-34.

REVIEWS:

Thomas Augst reviewed Benjamin Reiss, _Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums & Nineteenth-Century American Culture_ (University of Chicago Press 2008), in _Common-Place_ 9(3)(April 2009): online here (open- access):http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/reviews/augst.shtml

Rebecca Raphael reviewed Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds., _This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies_ (Society of Biblical Literature 2007) in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 83(1) (2009): [no pages, sorry].

Priscilla Wald reviewed Heather Munro Prescott, _Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine_ (University of Michigan Press 2007) in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 83(1)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

Andreas Killen reviewed Petteri Pietikainen, _Neurosis and MOdernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden_ (Brill 2007), in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 83(1)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

Philip R. Reilly reviewed Ian Dowbiggin, _The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century_ (Oxford UP 2008), in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 83(1)(2009): [no pages, sorry].

Karen Buckle reviewed Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone, eds., _Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter_ (Palgrave 2007), in _Journal of Contemporary History_ 44(2009): 337-338.

NEW BOOKS:

Patrick McDonagh, _Idiocy: A Cultural History_ (Liverpool University Press 2009).

Kim Nielsen, _Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller_ (Beacon Press 2009).

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Tim Stainton, Kim Nielsen, Hal Cook

Compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-04-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Barager, "'From the Periphery Towards the Center': Locating An Alternative Genealogy for Disability Studies in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals," UCLA _Center for the Study of Women: Thinking Gender Papers_ (February 1, 2009):

Online here: http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/thinkinggender/TG09_Barager

Capps, Donald. "Mental Illness, Religion, and the Rational Mind: The Case of Clifford W. Beers," _Mental Health, Religion, and Culture_ 12(2)(March 2009): 157-174.

Goodkin, Howard P. "The Founding of the American Epilepsy Society: 1936," _Epilepsia_ 50(3)(2009): 566-570.

Larsson, Marina. "Families and Institutions for Shell-Shocked Soldiers in Australia After the First World War," _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 97-114.

Pietikainen, Petteri. "Strengthening the Will: Public Clinics for the Nervously Ill in Sweden in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 115-132.

Stuckey, Michelle. "'Human Weeds': Dysgenic Breeders in Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds" _UCLA Center for the Study of Women: Thinking Gender Papers_ (February 1, 2009):

Online here: http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/thinkinggender/TG09_Stuckey

REVIEWS:

Alison Bashford reviewed Emily K. Abel, _Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles_ (Rutgers University Press 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 186-187.

Stephanie Kirby reviewed Cynthia A. Connolly, _Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970_ (Rutgers University Press 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1) (2009): 187-189.

Maria Silvia di Liscia reviewed Diego Armus, _La Ciudad Impura: Salud, Tuberculosis, y Cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950_ (Edhasa 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 189-191.

Ann Zulawski reviewed Jonathan D. Ablard, _Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983_ (Ohio University Press/University of Calgary Press 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 209-211.

Nafsika Thalassis reviewed Thomas Bewley, _Madness to Mental Illness: A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists_ (Cromwell Press 2008), in _Social History of Medicine_ 22(1)(2009): 208-209.

DISSERTATIONS:

Julie Passanante Elman (PhD, George Washington University 2009): "Medicalizing Edutainment: Enforcing Disability in the Teen Body, 1970-2000"

Advisors: Melani McAlister and Robert McRuer

BOOKS:

Marina Larsson, _Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War_ (UNSW Press 2009).

Contributions received this month from: Marina Larsson

compiled byPenny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Disability History Association Newsletter now available!

2009-03-30T11:24:00.000-07:00

I share an email from Cathy Kudlick...

Dear Historians of Disability,

At long last, the new edition of the Disability History Association Newsletter is available. In this meaty, 25+ page issue we have a number of terrific, thoughtful features including member profiles by Alice Wexler from the USA and Iain Hutchison from Scotland, as well as the first of a two-part interview with leading disability history scholar Henri-Jacques Stiker. We also have a report on the Disability History Conference held at San Francisco State University in August and a description of the holdings in disability history at the US National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. And we have information about new books, upcoming conferences, and blogs of interest to historians of disability.

At present, you can only get to the page by using this link, so please delete any older bookmarks you might have: http://www.dishist.org/

Thanks to everyone for your patience as we faced "overwhelming odds" to migrate the webpage, but now we at least have a new base and will build from there.

Best, Cathy Kudlick

President and Provocateur

Disability History Associaiton

ANNOUNCEMENT: Calisphere -- share your University of California-created web sites with us

2009-03-20T10:01:00.000-07:00

Do you have a web site you’d like to share that has been created by a UC campus faculty member, librarian, or researcher? Would you like to raise the visibility of a web site you’ve created? Is it an online exhibit, curated collection, or thematically-based grouping of materials? Does the web site feature resources such as photographs, maps, historical documents, current articles and research, multimedia, electronic books, or other online resources?

Let us know! We’d like to add it to Calisphere.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-03-06T11:03:00.001-08:00

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Dawson, Lesel. "'A Thirsty Womb': Lovesickness, Green Sickness, Hysteria, and Uterine Fury," Chapter 2 in Dawson's _Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature_ (September 2008): 46-91.

Meyer, Jessica. "Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity and Maturity in Understandings of Shell Shock in Britain," _Twentieth Century British History_ 20(1)(2009): 1-22.

Roman, Leslie G. "No Time for Nostalgia!: Asylum-Making, Medicalized Colonialism in British Columbia (1859-97), and Artistic Praxis for Social Transformation," _International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education_ 22(1)(January 2009): 17-63.

Sharpe, Robert L. "England's Legal Monsters," _Law, Culture, and the Humanities_ 5(1)(2009): 100-130.

REVIEWS:

Oliver Ready reviewed Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky, eds. _Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture_ (University of Toronto Press 2007), in _The Modern Language Review_ 104(1)(January 2009): 306-307.

Nigel Ingham reviewed Corinne Manning, _Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages_ (University of New South Wales Press 2008) in _British Journal of Learning Disabilities_ 37(1) (February 2009): 86. [An oral history of Australia's "first and largest institution purse built for people iwth learning difficulties"]

Robert G. Moeller reviewed Carol Poore, _Disability in Twentieth- Century German Culture_ (University of Michigan Press 2007) in _German History_ 27(1)(2009): 171-173.

Ian Dowbiggin reviewed Marius Turda and Paul Weindling, eds., _Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940_ (Central European University Press 2007), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(2) (2009): 266-268.

Richard Weikart reviewed Ian Dowbiggin, _The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century_ (Oxford University Press 2008), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 64(2)(2009): 270-271.

Michael Worboys reviewed Emily K. Abel, _Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles_ (Rutgers University Press 2007), in _Social History_ 34(1) (February 2009): 116.

John S. Haller Jr. reviewed N. Molina, _Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939_ (University of California Press 2006), among other books, in "Review Essay: Health and the Politics of Race and Class," _Journal of Urban History_ 35(3)(March 2009): 432-441.

Amy Slaton reviewed John Carson, _The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940_ (), in _Technology and Culture_ 50(1)(January 2009): [no pages, sorry].

Katharine Hodgkin reviews Jeremy Schmidt, _Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England_ (Ashgate 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 20(2009): 116-118.

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-02-05T12:16:00.001-08:00

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Adams, Annmarie, Kevin Schwartzman, and David Theodore. "Collapse and Expand: Architecture and Tuberculosis Therapy in Montreal, 1909, 1933, 1954," _Technology and Culture_ 49(4)(October 2008): 908-942.

Blanck, Peter. "'The Right to Live in the World': Disability Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," _Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights_ (Spring 2008): [no pages, sorry].

Durgin, Patrick F. "Psychosocial Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The 'Case' of Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journals," _Contemporary Women's Writing_ 2(2)(2008): 131-154.

Perlin, Michael L. "'Through the Wild Cathedral Evening': Barriers, Attitudes, Participatory Democracy, Professor tenBroek, and the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities," _Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights_ (Spring 2008): [no pages, sorry].

REVIEWS:

Erin Sullivan reviewed Jeremy Schmidt's _Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England_ (Ashgate 2007), in _History of the Human Sciences_ 22 (2009): 144-149.

Ulf Högberg reviewed Ian Dowbiggin, _The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century_ (Oxford UP 2008) in _The European Journal of Public Health_ 19(1)(November 2008): 121.

NEW BOOKS:

Steven J. Taylor, _Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors_ (Syracuse UP 2009).

DISSERTATIONS:

Joseph John Murray (PhD, University of Iowa 2007): "A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: The Transnational Lives of Deaf Americans, 1870-1924"[AAT 3290674]

Contributions received this month from: Jonathon Erlen, Michael Yared, Joseph Murray

Compiled byPenny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2009-01-14T21:38:00.000-08:00

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Devlieger, Patrick, Ian Grosvenor, Frank Simon, Geert van Hove, and Bruno Vanobbergen, "Visualizing Disability in the Past," _Paedagogica Historica_ 44(6)(December 2008): 747-760.

Wilkinson, Penny, and Peter McGill. "Representation of People with Intellectual Disabilities in a British Newspaper in 1983 and 2001," _Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities_ 22(1) (2009): 65-76.

Wilson, Daniel J. "Psychological Trauma and its Treatment in the Polio Epidemics," _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(4)(Winter 2008): 848-877.

REVIEWS:

Julie Anderson, "Voices in the Dark: Representations of Disability in Historical Research," _Journal of Contemporary History_ 44(2009): 107-116, is a review essay on Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling (eds), _Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom_ (Routledge 2006); Waltraud Ernst (ed.), _Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity_ (Routledge 2006); and David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg (eds), _Social Histories of Disability and Deformity_ (Routledge 2006).

Susanne Klausen, "Rethinking Reproduction: New Approaches to the History of Sexuality, Gender, the Family, and Reproductive Control," _Journal of Contemporary History_ 44(2009): 117-127, is a review essay that covers, among other works, Joanna Schoen's _Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare_ (UNC Press 2005), and Alexandra Stern, _Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America_ (UC Press 2005).

Virginia Berridge reviewed Didier Fassin (Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro, trans.), _When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa_ (UC Press 2007), in _Journal of Contemporary History_ 44(2009): 153-155.

Geoffrey Cocks reviewed _Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity_ (UC Press 2006), in _Journal of Contemporary History_ 44(2009): 160-162.

Kathryn Brammall reviewed A. W. Bates, _Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe_ (Editions Rodopi BV 2005), in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82 (4)(Winter 2008): 933-934.

Françoise Guérard reviewed Thierry Nootens, _Fous, Prodigues, et Ivrognes: Familles et déviance à Montréal au XIX siècle_ (McGill- Queen's University Press 2007), in _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(4)(Winter 2008): 951-952.

Catherine J. Kudlick reviewed Carol Poore, _Disability in Twentieth- Century German Culture_ (University of Michigan Press 2007), in _Central European History_ 41(4)(December 2008): 696-698.

Stephen Verderber reviewed Carla Yanni, _The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States_ (University of Minnesota Press 2007) in _Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians_ 67(3)(September 2008): 458-459.

Contributions received this month from: Catherine J. Kudlick, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Irving K. Zola Contest for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies, 2009 Call for Submissions

2008-12-29T19:39:00.000-08:00

The Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies

The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is pleased to announce the 2009 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. Funded through the generosity of the late Professor Zola's colleagues at Brandeis University, this annual award recognizes excellence in research and writing and that shares the values and commitment to disability studies exemplified by Irving K. Zola's life and scholarship.

Eligibility:

(1) The Zola Award is typically given to an emerging scholar in disability studies. This will typically be someone who has completed a Ph.D. within the past seven years and who does not yet have tenure. Applications will also be accepted from scholars with other degrees or those who received their degrees earlier but only recently moved into the area of disability studies. Emerging scholars who work in non-academic settings are also welcome to apply.

(2) The research submitted must be relevant to disability studies, which we define broadly to include the examinations of concepts and values related to disability in all forms of cultural representation throughout history, as well as analyses which deepen our understanding of the personal and social dimensions of the lived experience of disability.

Award: The winner will receive:

(1) A financial award of $350;

(2) Conference registration for the SDS 2009 conference;

(3) An opportunity to present his or her work at the SDS 2009 conference;

(4) Publication in Disability Studies Quarterly;

(5) The possibility of a public presentation at Brandeis University; and

(6) A certificate.

Deadlines: All manuscripts must be submitted by February 2, 2009. The recipient of the award will be announced on or around March 30th, 2009.

Evaluation Process: All submissions will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars in disability studies. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously and all reviews will be confidential. Manuscript will be evaluated for importance and timeliness of the research; significance of contribution to the knowledge base in disability studies; description of research methodology and design, if appropriate; and overall quality of writing and clarity of style. Manuscripts and reviews will not be returned to authors.

Submission: To be considered for the competition, all manuscripts must adhere to the following criteria:

(1) Overall length must not exceed 30 pages (double spaced, 12 point font);

(2) Citations should follow the formatting appropriate for the author’s field of study;

(3) Must be written in English;

(4) Must be available in alternative formats (e.g., large print, Braille,audiotape) upon request of the Awards Committee;

(5) Must have content reflecting on a topic relevant to disability studies;

(6) Must be written by a single author who is also primarily responsible for the research described in the manuscript.

(7) Must not have been previously published. Manuscripts not currently under consideration are preferred;

(8) Manuscript must be accompanied by a current CV and the completed application form (see below this announcement).

Please send the completed application form, the manuscript, along with a CV, as attachments, in MSWord, to Ashleigh Thompson at Ashleigh.Thompson@mail.cuny.edu with“Irving K. Zola Award” in the subject line.

Please note that a current CV and the completed Application Form (below) must accompany the manuscript, as separate attachments. If e-mail is not available, send one copy of the application form, a current CV, and five copies of the manuscript to the following address:

Ashleigh Thompson

Attn: Irving Zola Award

The City University of New York

101 West 31st St., 14th Floor

New York, NY 10001

Irving K. Zola Award Application

NOTE: This form/information must accompany ALL submissions. This information will not be shared with judges until after judging is complete.

Name: Mailing Address:

Phone or SMS number where you would prefer to be contacted:

E-mail address:

Title of submitted essay:

Is this manuscript currently under consideration for publication?

Are you a (circle one):·

Faculty Member

Student

Scholar in a non-academic setting

If you are a faculty member: What is your rank and department? Is your appointment tenure track? If so, have you been tenured?

Please list your last degree and when/where it was completed.

If you are a student: For what degree are you studying, within what department? When do you expect to complete your course of study? If you work in a non-academic setting: Please describe your occupation

What is your educational background (degrees, when obtained, discipline)? For how long have you been involved in disability studies research/scholarly activity? The Zola Award is typically given to an emerging scholar in disability studies. This will typically be someone who has completed a Ph.D. within the past seven years and who does not yet have tenure. Applications will also be accepted from scholars with other degrees or those who received their degrees earlier but only recently moved into the area of disability studies. Emerging scholars who work in non-academic settings are also welcome to apply.

In light of the criteria above, please state why you are an emerging scholar. If there are extenuating circumstances you believe the selection committee should take into consideration, please describe them.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Podcast interview with Paul Longmore

2008-12-29T19:36:00.000-08:00

The latest installment of the Making History Podcast (produced by Jana Remy) features an interview with Paul Longmore:

http://makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/25/episode-8-paul-k-longmore/

ANNOUNCEMENT: DS blog of interest

2008-12-07T15:27:00.000-08:00

Check out the latest Review of Disability Studies blog entries at http://www.rdsinternationaljournal.blogspot.com/ .

Recent topics include "Moving Disability Studies Forward", "Normals and Crazies", and "Youth Suicide.":

Megan A. Conway, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Editor, Review of Disability Studies (RDS) http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/

Training Coordinator, OPE/IST Project http://www.ist.hawaii.edu/

Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1776 University Avenue, UA 4-6, Honolulu, HI 96822

Office: University Annex 1, Rm 4

Tel: 808-956-6166 Fax: 808-956-7878

Email: mconway@hawaii.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-12-07T15:14:00.000-08:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Gambino, Matthew. "'These Strangers Within our Gates': Race, Psychiatry, and Mental Illness among Black Americans at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC, 1900-40," _History of Psychiatry_ 19(4)(2008): 387-408.

Wheatcroft, Sue. "Children's Experiences of War: Handicapped Children in England During the Second World War," _Twentieth Century British History_ 19(2008): 480-501.

Ziff, Katherine K., David O. Thomas, and Patricia M. Beamish, "Asylum and Community: The Athens Lunatic Asylum in Nineteenth-Century Ohio," _History of Psychiatry_ 19(4)(2008): 409-432.

REVIEWS:

Bob Sanchez reviewed Paul A. Lombardo, _Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell_ (Johns Hopkins UP 2008), in _The Internet Review of Books_ 2(2)(November 2008): online here: http://www.internetreviewofbooks.com/nov08/
three_generations_no_imbeciles.html

Thomas E. Phillips reviewed Chad Hartsock, _Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts: The Use of Physical Features in Characterization_ (Brill 2008), in _Religious Studies Review_ 34(4)(November 2008): 297-298.

Barry Edginton reviewed Carla Yanni, _The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States_ (University of Minnesota Press 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 509-512.

Catharine Coleborne reviewed Julie Parle, _States of Mind: Searching for Mental Health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918_ (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(3) (2008): 611-612.

Allan Ingram reviewed Jeremy Schmidt, _Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England_ (Ashgate 2007), in _Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies_ 31(4)(2008): 629-630.

NEW BOOK:

Gary Presley, _Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio_ (University of Iowa Press 2008).

DISSERTATION:

Sebastian Bartsch (University of Cologne 2007): "Geistig behinderte Menschen in der SBZ/DDR. Erziehung, Bildung, Betreuung. 1945-1989/90" (People with intellectual disabilities in the Soviet Sector/GDR. Education and care. 1945-1989/90) Published as: Geistig behinderte Menschen in der DDR. Erziehung - Bildung - Betreuung. Lehren und Lernen mit behinderten Menschen, Bd. 12. Athena- Verlag, Oberhausen 2007 (People with intellectual disabilities in the GDR. Education and care. Series "Teaching and learning with people with disabilities", volume 12. Athena-Verlag, Oberhausen 2007)

Contributions received this month from: Iain Hutchison, John Erlen, Gary Presley, Sebastian Bartsch

Compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-11-03T10:32:00.000-08:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Barmaki, Reza. "The Bourgeois Order and the 'Normal' Child: The Case of Ontario, 1867-1900," _International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction_ 5(3)(July 2007): 263-276.

Ellis, Robert. "The Asylum, the Poor Law, and the Growth of County Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire," _Northern History_ 45(2) (September 2008): 279-293.

Gabbard, D. C. "From Idiot Beast to Idiot Sublime: Mental Disability in John Cleland's _Fanny Hill_," _PMLA_ 123(2)(2008): 375-389.

Masala, Carmelo, and Donatella Rita Petretto, "From Disablement to Enablement: Conceptual Models of Disability in the 20th Century," _Disability & Rehabilitation_ 30(17)(2008): 1233-1244.

Moeschen, Sheila. "A Crippling Deceit: Mendicancy and the Performance of Disability in Progressive America," _Text and Performance Quarterly_ 28(1-2)(January 2008): 81-97.

Richards, Penny L. "Online Museums, Exhibits, and Archives of American Disability History," in Susan Koppelman and Alison Franks, eds., _Collecting the Internet: Essays on the Pursuit of Old Passions through New Technologies_ (McFarland 2008): 168-179.

Todman, Donald. "Epilepsy in the Graeco-Roman World: Hippocratic Medicine and Asklepian Temple Medicine Compared," _Journal of the History of the Neurosciences_ 17(4)(2008): 435-441.

REVIEWS:

Richard L. Gawthrop reviewed David Lederer's _Madness, Religion, and the State in Early Modern Europe: The Bavarian Beacon_ (Cambridge UP 2006), in _German History_ 26(4)(2008): 578-579.

Dave Feickert reviewed Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston, _Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining_ (Ashgate 2007), in _Australian Economic History Review_ 48(3)(October 2008): 320-321.

DISSERTATIONS:

Thomas Barow (Humboldt Universität Berlin, 2007): "Die 'Schwachsinningenfürsorge' in Schweden 1916-1945 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung pädagogischer Entwicklungen" [The care of for 'feebleminded' people in Sweden 1916-1945 with special attention for educational developments]

Abigail Lauren Salerno (PhD, Duke University 2007): "The Blind Heroine in Cinema History: Film and the Not-Visual"Advisor: Jane M. Gaineshttp.

Contributions received this month from: Pieter Verstraete, John Erlen

Compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio

2008-11-03T10:18:00.001-08:00

Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio, a memoir by Gary Presley, has been published.

To find additional information see below:

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-10-03T13:29:00.001-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Barnes, Sharon L. "Marvelous Arithmetics: Prosthesis, Speech, and Death in the Late Work of Audre Lorde," _Women's Studies_ 37(7) (October 2008): 769-789.

Harmon, A. G. "'Slender Knowledge': Sovereignty, Madness, and the Self in Shakespeare's King Lear," _Law, Culture, and the Humanities_ 4 (2008): 403-423.

Hilton, Claire. "The Provision of Mental Health Services in England for People over 65 Years of Age, 1970-78," _History of Psychiatry_ 19 (2008): 297-320.

Marcellus, Jane. "Nervous Women and Noble Savages: The Romanticized 'Other' in Nineteenth-Century US Patent Medicine Advertising," _Journal of Popular Culture_ 41(5)(2008): 784-808.

Møllerhøj, Jette. "On Unsafe Ground: The Practices and Institutionalization of Danish Psychiatry, 1850-1920," _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 321-337.

REVIEWS:

Brian H. Greenwald reviewed John Tabak, _Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign Language_ (Praeger 2006), in _The Historian_ 70(3)(2008): 558-559.

Nathan Carlin reviewed Kathleen J. Greider, _Much Madness is Divinest Sense: Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering_ (Pilgrim Press 2007), in _Religious Studies Review_ 34(3)(August 2008): 166.

Matthew Thomson reviewed Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling, eds., _Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom_ (Routledge 2007) in _The Economic History Review_ 61(4)(September 2008): 1012-1013.

NEW BOOKS:

Emily Abel and Saskia Subramanian, _After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors_ (NYU Press 2008).

DISSERTATIONS:

Scalenghe, Sara (PhD, Georgetown University 2006): "Being Different: Intersexuality, Blindness, Deafness, and Madness in Ottoman Syria"

O'Tool, Mark Polking (PhD, UC-Santa Barbara 2007): "Caring for the Blind in Medieval Paris: Live at the Quinze-Vingts, 1250-1430"

Reeve, Patricia Anne (PhD, Boston College 2007): "Cultural and Legal Representations of Imperiled Workers and their Political Significance, Massachusetts (1820-1910)"

Contributions received this month from: John Erlen, Emily Abel

Compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: CFP History, Memory, and Trauma

2008-09-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

In recent years trauma studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences, drawing together scholars from history, anthropology, literary studies, disability studies, and other disciplines into a rich set of conversations about the nature and meaning of trauma. We have learned a great deal from these efforts, including the fact that the experience of trauma is deeply intertwined with the social and cultural forces through which people make meaning of the world, the fact that traumatic events cannot be conceptualized as independent of the historical process in which they occur (such as in so-called "natural" disasters), and the fact that memories of traumatic events (at both the individual and collective levels) are deeply intertwined with, but not the same as, historical narratives that document the suffering of the past. However, such conversations are largely distinct from the efforts of professionals who provide services to those who suffer from trauma, as well as the efforts of researchers who study trauma toward the goal of producing scientific knowledge about its treatment and impact. In our view,efforts to bridge these divides are sorely needed.

To this end, Traumatology: An International Journal seeks papers for a special issue on the theme of "History, Memory, and Trauma," to appear in September 2009. Traumatology is a leading, peer-reviewed journal for professionals who study and treat people exposed to traumatic events, including natural disasters, war, accidents, physical and emotional abuse, hospitalization, sudden job loss, and major illness. Its readership is composed of both researchers who study trauma and its treatment and health-care providers, social workers, and others who provide services to people who suffer from traumatic experiences. We seek papers that shed light on the relationship between past,present, memory, and the experience, treatment, and study of trauma from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history,literary studies, disability studies, science studies, and anthropology. We also seek papers on this theme from professionals in the fields of social work, nursing, and other areas who provide services to victims of trauma. Our goal is to provide a vehicle for scholars, treatment professionals, and others to engage with one another about the meaning of the past and its relationship to the experience and treatment of trauma today.We are especially interested in papers that have significance for the treatment of people suffering from traumatic experiences, but papers that do not have direct relevance to treatment are also welcome. Literature reviews, critical interventions, and explorations of trauma in the past are also encouraged.

Please send short proposals for papers (200-300 words) to joseph.gabriel@med.fsu.edu by October 1. Papers will be due by December 15 for peer review, with final drafts of papers due in March of 2009. Papers should be written in accessible language and appropriate for general readers. Target length for articles is 6,000-8,000 words, although submissions of different lengths will be considered.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Latest Issue of RDS now online

2008-09-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

Volume 4, Issue 3 of the Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal is now posted online at www.rds.hawaii.edu A table of contents is listed below. Also visit our blogspot at www.rdsinternationaljournal.blogspot.com to post a comment about any of the topics discussed in this or other issues of RDS. Subscribers of RDS will receive their print copies in the next couple of weeks. RDS is free online but a subscription is necessary to receive the print version. To subscribe to RDS go to http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/quicklinks/link02.php

Research Articles

* Virtually Invisible Women: Women with Disabilities in Mainstream Psychological Theory and Research
Kristen Quinlan, Lisa Bowleg, & Susan Faye Ritz, USA

* College Preparation and Participation: Reports From Individuals Who Have Speech and Mobility Disabilities
Carole Isakson & Sheryl Burgstahler, USA

* Consuming Disability: A New Dutch System for Hearing Aid Distribution
Irene Olaussen, Norway

* The Role of Nonprofits in Shaping Civil Rights: Understanding of Disability in Families of Children with Autism
Dana Lee Baker & Leal Keiser, USA

Creative Works

* Poem: The Autism Mantra
Rama Cousik, USA

Book Reviews

* Leave No Nurse Behind: Nurses Working with Disabilities
Reviewed by Donna Maheady

*Face On: Disability Arts in Ireland and Beyond
Reviewed by Steven E. Brown

*Disability Harassment
Reviewed by Anna Kirkland

*Meaningful Exchanges for People with Autism: An Introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Reviewed by Patricia Wright

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-09-12T09:14:00.000-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Bernuth, Ruth v., "Über Zwerge, rachitische Ungeheuer und blödsinnige Leute lacht man nicht. Zu Karl Flögels 'Geschichte der Hofnarren' von 1789," _Traverse_ 13 (2006), H. 3, S. 61-72. [on early modern constructions of “dwarfism”]

Bösl, Elsbeth: "'…damit alle Behinderten – unabhängig von der Ursache ihrer Behinderung – den Schutz des Gesetzes haben…' Über Chancenungleichheiten und Hierarchien in der westdeutschen Behindertenpolitik." _Die Welt als Barriere. Deutschsprachige Beiträge zu den Disability Studies_, Hrsg. v. Erich Otto Graf/Cornelia Renggli/Weisser, Jan, Bern 2006, S. 57-65. [on disability policy and the welfare state in the FRG]

Bösl, Elsbeth, "Integration durch Arbeit? Westdeutsche Behindertenpolitik unter dem Primat der Erwerbsarbeit 1949–1974," _Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte_ (2006), Nr. 3, S. 113-123. [on disability policy, the welfare state and rehabilitation in the workplace in the FRD]

Brink, Cornelia, "'Keine Angst vor Psychiatern'. Psychiatrie, Psychiatriekritik und Öffentlichkeit in der Bundesrepublik (1960-1980)," _"Moderne" Anstaltspsychiatrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Legitimation und Kritik_, Hrsg. v. Fangerau, Heiner/Nolte, Karin, Stuttgart 2006, S. 341-360. [on psychiatry and institutions]

Finnegan, Diarmid A. "'An Aid to Mental Health': Natural History, Alienists, and Therapeutics in Victorian Scotland," _Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C_ 39(3)(September 2008): 326-337.

Hannen, Christian, "Von der Fürsorge zur Barrierefreiheit. Die Hamburger Gehörlosenbewegung 1875-2005," Seedorf/Hamburg 2006. [on the Hamburg self-help group of people with hearing disabilities]

Kaba, Mariama, "Quelle place pour une perspective genre dans la 'Disability History“'? Histoire du corps des femmes et des hommes à travers le handicap," _Traverse_ 13 (2006), H. 3, S. 47-60. [on gendering disability history]

Mediratta, Sangeeta. "Beauty and the Breast: The Poetics of Physical Absence and Narrative Presence in Frances Burney's _Mastectomy Letter_ (1811)," _Women: A Cultural Review_ 19(2) (2008): 188-207.

Möhring, Maren, "Kriegsversehrte Körper. Zur Bedeutung der Sichtbarkeit von Behinderung," _Disability Studies, Kultursoziologie und Soziologie der Behinderung. Erkundungen in einem neuen Forschungsfeld_ Hrsg. v. Waldschmidt, Anne/Schneider, Werner, Bielefeld 2007, S. 175-197. [on veterans with disabilities after WWII]

Ritzmann, Iris, "'Die der Welt und sich selbst zur Last sind': Behinderte Kinder und Jugendliche in der Frühen Neuzeit," _Traverse_ 13 (2006), H. 3, S. 73-86. [on children with disability in early modern Germany]

Rudloff, Wilfried, "Rehabilitation und Hilfen für Behinderte. In: Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945," Bd. 4: 1957-1966 Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Sozialpolitik im Zeichen des erreichten Wohlstandes. Bandherausgeber: Ruck, Michael/Boldorf, Marcel. Hrsg. v. Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung/Bundesarchiv, Baden-Baden 2007, S. 463-502. [on rehabilitation and disability policy in the FRD]

Scharf, Lothar, "Taubstumme in der Hitlerjugend?" Fridolin W. erzählt. Biografie und Dokumentation zu Gehörlosen im 3. Reich, Heuenstamm 2006. [a biografical account of a boy with hearing and speech impairments in the Hitler Youth]

Waldschmidt, Anne, "Soziales Problem oder kulturelle Differenz? Zur Geschichte von 'Behinderung' aus der Sicht der 'Disability Studies,'"_Traverse_ 13 (2006), H. 3, S. 31-46. [on how to do research in disability history]

REVIEWS:

Abby Goldman reviewed Natalia Molina's _Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles_ (UC Press 2006), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(4)(2008): 534-536.

Wendy Kline reviewed Mark A. Largent's _Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States_ (Rutgers UP 2008), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63 (4)(2008): 537-539.

Leonard Smith reviewed Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone, eds., _Medicine, Madness, and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter_ (Palgrave MacMillan 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19 (2008): 374-376.

Edgar Jones reviewed Penny Coleman, _Flashback, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War_ (Beacon Press 2006), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 376-377.

Akihito Suzuki reviewed Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, _The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914_ (Routledge 2006), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 377-380.

Chris Ball reviewed Jesse F. Ballenger, _Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History_ (Johns Hopkins UP 2006), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 380-381.

Susan Piddock reviewed James E. Moran and Jonathan Andrews, eds., _Madness, Architecture, and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context_ (Routledge 2007), in _History of Psychiatry_ 19(2008): 382-384.

NEW BOOKS:

Healey, David. _Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder_ (Johns Hopkins Press 2008).

Connolly, Cynthia A. _Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970_ (Rutgers UP 2008).

Contributions received this month from: Elsbeth Bösl (who sent all the German- and French-language entries this month--but any mangling of punctuation is the editor's, not Elsbeth's)

Compiled byPenny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

Planning ahead for Fall

2008-09-03T17:31:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are in town and already planning your classes for Fall Quarter, please consider sharing your syllabi or at least your reading lists with me, or the librarian with whom you work most closely. Doing so will: 1. help ensure that the library has at least one copy of the materials your students will be reading, and 2. better enable the library to build our literature collections in ways that complement the teaching and research done at UCD. I assure you that I will not share your syllabi without permission.

ANNOUNCEMENT: TOC: DSQ 28(3)(Summer 2008): Special Section on Disability and History

2008-08-12T11:37:00.000-07:00

The just-issued and now fully free and open Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) has an excellent forum on disability history full of articles of interest to H-Disability readers.

http://www.dsq-sds.org/

Special Section: Disability and History

Introduction: Disability and History--Audra Jennings

Historical Thinking and Disability History--Kim E. Nielsen

Disability in History--Douglas C. Baynton

The American Historical Association Task Force on Disability--Debbie Ann Doyle

The Revolving Ramp: Disability and the New Adjunct Economy--Alice K. Adjunct

Disability and the Academic Job Market--Sarah F. Rose

The Continuation of Slavery: The Experience of Disabled Slaves during Emancipation--James T. Downs

Risk, Disability, and Citizenship: U. S. Railroaders and the Federal Employers' Liability Act--John Williams-Searle

"The Savage Heart beneath the Civilized Exterior": Race, Citizenship, and Mental Illness in Washington, D.C., 1900-1940--Matthew Gambino

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-08-12T11:22:00.000-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Kelly, Brendan D. "Poverty, Crime, and Mental Illness: Female Forensic Psychiatric Committal in Ireland, 1910-1948," _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 311-328.

Seng, Loh Kah. "'Our Lives are Bad but our Luck is Good': A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore," _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 291-309.

Smith, Leonard. "'Your Very Thankful Inmate': Discovering the Patients of an Early County Lunatic Asylum," _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 237-252.

Smith, Lisa Wynne. "'An Account of an Unaccountable Temper': The Experience of Pain in Early Eighteenth-Century England and France," _Eighteenth-Century Studies_ 41(4)(Summer 2008): 459-480.

Stainton, Tim. "Reason, Grace, and Charity: Augustine and the Impact of Church Doctrine on the Construction of Intellectual Disability," _Disability & Society_ 23(5)(2008): 485-496.

REVIEWS:

Anna Bayman reviewed Katharine Hodgkin, _Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography_ (Palgrave MacMillan 2007), in _English Historical Review_ 123(502)(2008): 739-740.

T. M. Lemos, reviewed Johanna Dorman, The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran Scrolls (Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit 2007), in _Review of Biblical Literature_ [http://www.bookreviews.org/] (2008).

Jeremy Schipper reviewed Johanna Dorman, _The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran Scrolls (Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit 2007), in _Review of Biblical Literature_ [http://www.bookreviews.org/] (2007).

Gayle Davis reviewed Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe, _The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity, and Society in England, 1845-1914_ (Routledge 2006) in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 409-411.

Andrew Scull reviewed Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan, eds., _Psychiatry and Empire_ (Palgrave McMillan 2007) in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 411-413.

Gemma Blok reviewed Petteri Pietikainen, _Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden_ (Brill 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 413-414.

Julie Parle reviewed Catharine Coleborne, _Reading 'Madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1888_ (Network Press 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 415-416.

NEW BOOKS:

Steve Bailey, _Athlete FIrst: A History of the Paralympic Movement_ (Wiley 2008).

James Moran, Leslie Topp, and Jonathan Andrews, eds., _Madness, Architecture, and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context_ (Routledge 2007).

Jeremy Schmidt, _Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Madness in Early Modern England_ (Ashgate 2007).

Contributions received this month from: Pieter Verstraete, Tim Vermande, Cathy Kudlick, Jonathan Erlen

Compiled byPenny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bibliography of Disability in Asia, Middle East, and Africa

2008-07-24T15:33:00.000-07:00

A new bibliography is now hosted in the library of the Independent Living Institute: "Glimpses of Disability in the Literature & Cultures of East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East & Africa. A modern and historical bibliography, briefly annotated.

http://www.independentliving.org/docs7/miles200807.pdf

This bibliography lists and annotates 130 novels, short stories, biographies, literary criticism, and a few materials from philosophy, anthropology and folklore, in which disability, deafness or mental disorders play a significant part, in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, available mostly in English or French.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Audioconference: ADA Update - 18 Years Later

2008-07-10T16:52:00.001-07:00

The Federal Government is sponsoring an Internet conference to discuss the ADA on its 18th anniversary.

Here is a link to sign up:http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=219

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-07-01T12:34:00.001-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings. Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Birnbaum, Aiton. "Collective Trauma and Post-Traumatic Symptoms in the Biblical Narrative of Ancient Israel," _Mental Health, Religion, and Culture_ 11(5)(2008): 533-546.

Heggie, Vanessa, "Lies, Damn Lies, and Manchester's Recruiting Statistics: Degeneration as an 'Urban Legend' in Victorian and Edwardian Britain," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(2)(April 2008): 178-216.

Lande, R. Gregory, "Invalid Corps," _Military Medicine_ 173(6)(June 2008): 525-528.

Sen, Reena, Juliet Goldbart, and Sudha Kaul. "Growth of an NGO: The Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy from 1974 to 2006," _Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities_ 5(2)(June 2008): 105-111.

Slevin, Tom. "The Wound and the First World War: 'Cartesian' Surgeries to Embodied Being in Psychoanalysis, Electrification, and Skin Grafting," _Body & Society_ 14(2008): 39-61.

NEW BOOKS:

Olyan, Saul M. _Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences_ (Cambridge UP 2008).

Borsay, Anne, and Peter Shapely, eds. _Medicine, Charity, and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c1550-1950_ (Ashgate 2007).

McIvor, Arthur, and Ronald Johnston, _Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining_ (Ashgate 2007).

DISSERTATIONS AND THESES:

Szabo Verzoc, William (MA 2008, Wayne State University): "Bringing our Boys Home: Historical Perspectives on War, Rehabilitation and Canadian Society Through an Examination of Print Media Representations of the Great War"
Advisor: Jacalyn D. Harden

REVIEWS:

R. A. Houston reviewed Jeffrey R. Watt, ed., _Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe_ (Cornell UP 2004), in _European History Quarterly_ 38(2008): 515-517.

Justin Willis reviewed Chloe Campbell, _Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya_ (Manchester UP 2007), in _History_ 93(311)(July 2008): 397-398.

Fearnley, Andrew M. "Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Mental Illness and Race," _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(2)(April 2008): 245-257.

Review of Celia Brickman, _Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis_ (Columbia UP 2003); and James B. Waldram, _Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples_ (University of Toronto Press 2004).

Wendy J. Turner reviewed Luke Demaitre, _Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body_ (Johns Hopkins UP 2007) in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(3) (2008): 396-398.

Gerald N. Grob reviewed Patricia D'Antonio, _Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients in the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia_ (Lehigh UP 2006), in _Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(3)(2008): 405-407.

Contributions received this month from: Jonathan Erlen, Catherine Kudlick, Tim Vermande, Daniel Wilson

Compiled by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Article from Chronicle of Higher Ed on DOJ Regulations for Higher Ed

2008-06-17T11:24:00.000-07:00

This article is from today's Chronicle of Higher Education, and discusses how new DOJ regulations may affect accommodations in higher ed.

Proposed Federal Regulations Would Ease Up on Colleges' Responsibilities Under Disability Law

SARA LIPKA

Washington

As Congress considers a bill that would bolster the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Justice Department has proposed new regulations that would limit the accommodations universities and other entities must provide under the existing law.

The lengthy new regulations, which detail requirements for handicapped-accessible seating and qualifications for service animals, among other issues, are scheduled to be published today in the Federal Register.

Counting Seats

Compared with current regulations, the proposed update decreases the proportion of seats an "assembly area" must make accessible to people who use wheelchairs. Now that figure is about 1 percent, with the exact proportion depending on the size of the venue. A stadium of 5,000 seats, for example, must provide space for 51 wheelchairs. Stadiums larger than that must provide one more space for every 100 additional seats. Under the proposed new regulations, a stadium of 5,001 seats would have to provide space for 36 wheelchairs. One more space would be required for every 200 additional seats a stadium has. For a stadium with a 50,000-person capacity, that would mean 261-as opposed to 501-handicapped-accessible spots.

"That seems like a step backwards to me," said L. Scott Lissner, who coordinates disability-law compliance for the Ohio State University system. "I don't know of any past examples that actually reduced the standard of access."

At Ohio State's football stadium, Mr. Lissner said, wheelchair-accessible seating is in high demand. "We're easily filling 2 percent" of all seats, he said.

The proposed revisions of regulations, he said, were driven by professional arenas, which tend to draw fewer fans with disabilities than do college stadiums.

The new regulations, if unchanged after a public comment period, would be roughly comparable to the terms of a recent settlement between the federal government and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. This spring, in response to a lawsuit over handicapped-accessible seating in its football stadium, the university agreed to provide 329 spots-or a third of a percent of its 107,000 seats-for fans in wheelchairs.

The proposed new regulations on seating would modify the ADA Standards for Accessible Design, an attempt to consolidate several building codes, Mr. Lissner said. As of now, depending on facilities' age and the source of funds for their construction, colleges may be complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Architectural Barriers Act, the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, and the American National Standards Institute's guidelines. If the changes pass, Mr. Lissner said, "all of the buildings will be under the same set of standards on campus."

Residence halls, whether operated by or on behalf of a college, would have to meet existing accessibility guidelines for "transient lodging," according to the proposed regulations. Apartment-style housing, on the other hand, would be subject to existing requirements for residential dwelling units. Prior rules did not specify how to classify campus housing for compliance purposes, the Justice Department said.

No Ferrets

Service animals are another focal point of the new regulations. The proposed rules distinguish service animals from "emotional-support animals," which they say are not covered by federal disability law.

"Animals whose sole function is to provide emotional support, comfort, therapy, companionship, therapeutic benefits, or promote emotional well-being are not service animals," the Justice Department said in an early copy of the proposed regulations posted online.

Support animals, like ferrets and snakes, have been a sticking point for colleges, where students have asked to keep them in residence halls and take them to class.

"The arguments have been made with increasing frequency in recent years that lots of animals other than traditional service animals should qualify," said Michael R. Masinter, a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University. The new regulations would define service animals as those that are specially trained to perform a demonstrable task. That definition may still include "psychiatric-service animals" that remind their owners to take medication or that interrupt incidents of cutting or other self-mutilation.

"The regulations permit one to ask what service the animal has been trained to perform," Mr. Masinter said. "That's a fair question."

Certain animals are explicitly prohibited. They include "nonhuman primates," as well as "reptiles, rabbits, farm animals (including horses, miniature horses, ponies, pigs, and goats), ferrets, amphibians, and rodents."

The bill pending in Congress, the ADA Restoration Act (HR 3195 and S 1881), has concerned some higher-education officials because it defines disabilities more broadly than have a handful of recent court decisions (The Chronicle, June 13). When the legislation, now stalled, becomes final, the group it defines will be eligible for the accommodations the new regulations-and maybe more to follow-propose.

Those, however, are just the minimum requirements, Mr. Masinter pointed out. "All of these laws serve as a floor of what schools may provide," he said. "Schools are always free to go further than where the law requires them to go in accommodating students with disabilities."

ANNOUNCEMENT: Disability History Association Spring Newsletter Now Available

2008-06-11T14:36:00.000-07:00

The DHA Spring Newsletter is now available at the new!, improved! Disability History Association website:

http://dha.osu.edu/newsletter.htm

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-06-09T13:13:00.000-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings . Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;

2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and

3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Brown, Steven E. "Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois, 1948-1960," in E. Tamura, ed., The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power (Palgrave Macmillan 2008): 165-92.

Cormier, Andre. "The Transcendental Blind Stripling in Ulysses," in Philip T. Sicker and Moshe Gold, eds., Joyce Studies Annual 2008 (Fordham UP 2008).

Fearnley, Andrew M. "Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Mental Illness and Race," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 63(2008): 245-257.

Langbauer, Laurie. "Ethics and Theory: Suffering Children in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and LeGuin," ELH (English Literary History) 75 (1)(Spring 2008): 89-108.

Smith, Leonard. "A Gentleman's Mad-Doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House," History of Psychiatry 19 (2008): 163-184.

Williams, Owen. "Exorcising Madness in Late Elizabethan England: The Seduction of Arthington and the Criminal Culpability of Demoniacs," Journal of British Studies 47(1) (January 2008): 30-52.

REVIEWS:

Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman reviewed Christopher Krentz, Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (UNC Press 2007), in Journal of American Culture 31(2)(2008): 267-269.

Carolyne Van Der Meer reviewed Valerie Pedlar, The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Literature (Liverpool UP 2006), in ELH 75(1)(Spring 2008).

DISSERTATIONS:

Castles, Katherine Lynn (PhD, Duke University 2006): "'Little Tardies': Mental Retardation, Race, and Class in American Society, 1945–1965"

Greene, Kyra R. (PhD, Stanford University 2007): "The Role of Protest Waves, Cultural Frames, and Institutional Activism in the Evolution of American Disability Rights Policies"

Harris, Sean J. (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago 2007): "Found insane in 'the Holy Land': Psychiatry and the African American experience in Illinois, 1870--1910"

NEW BOOKS:

Connolly, Cynthia A., Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi, 182 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4267-6.)

Talley, Colin L., A History of Multiple Sclerosis. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xviii, 201 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99788-5.)

Scandura, Jani, Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3654-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3666-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Contributors this month: Dan Wilson

Compiled by Penny L. Richards PhD Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: CFP Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

2008-05-24T14:47:00.000-07:00

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

Special Issue: Blindness and Literature

Special Guest Editor: Georgina Kleege

Blindness seems to hold a particular fascination for writers from all cultures, functioning in a variety of ways in different texts. Blindness can indicate divine retribution for some sort of transgression, or can serve as a personal tragedy to be overcome. Blind figures can highlight the virtue and compassion of sighted characters, or act as seers and teachers commenting upon and guiding sighted protagonists.

This special issue of JLCDS will explore literary representations of blindness and vision impairment.

Topics may include:

blind seers and prophets
Homer's blindness
Milton's blindness
Joyce's blindness
Borges's blindness
blindness and visuality
blindness and aurality
blindness and gender
memoirs of lost sight
memoirs of restored sight

Proposals should be e-mailed to the guest editor Georgina Kleege gkleege@berkeley.edu and the editor David Bolt bolt@talktalk.net before October 1 2008.

Invited authors will then have at least 3 months to submit the final typescripts.

Book reviews that relate to the issue should be e-mailed to the Book Reviews Editor Clare Barker c.f.barker02@leeds.ac.uk before January 15 2009.

NB In 2009 Journal of Literary Disability will be moving to Liverpool University Press, 3 issues per annum, print as well as online formats, and the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. The journal will no longer be free, so LUP subscription will be necessary.

Further information is available at: http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3856

ANNOUNCEMENT: Journal of interest

2008-05-03T13:07:00.000-07:00

Scholars who work on intersections among constructions of disability, monstrosity, and religion may be interested in the venue below.

Rebecca Raphael http://www.golemjournal.org/

GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters is a new, peer-reviewed, indexed, online journal that seeks to provide a space for thinking critically about monsters in the context of religion as culture. GOLEM wishes to act as a catalyst for new approaches to the subject, with topics as varied as ontology, class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationalism, cosmology, disability, ecology, family, natality, post-humanism, science and technology. We welcome scholarly submissions using a variety of methodologies and focusing on religion and monsters from antiquity to the present day. GOLEM maintains a commitment to advanced academic research as well as to the work of promising students, whose scholarship is featured in a special GREMLIN section in each issue.

EDITORIAL BOARD: Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University Senior Editor) Frances Flannery-Dailey (James Madison University GOLEM Founding Editor) Timothy Beal (Case Western Reserve University); Beverly Bow (Cleveland State University); Rebecca Raphael (Texas State University); Paul B. Thomas (Rockhurst University); Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College);

CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO, SPRING 2007

§ Gavin Van Horn and Lucas Johnston, Evolutionary Controversy and a Side of Pasta: The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Subversive Function of Religious Parody

§ Paul B. Thomas, Smiting Goliath: Giants as Monsters in the Ancient Near East

§ Douglas E. Cowan, Do I Look Like Someone Who Cares What God Thinks?" Rethinking the Relationship between Religion and Cinema Horror

§ Nathan Shinn, Boundaries Between Wild and Civilized Humans in Near Eastern and Biblical Mythology

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

2008-05-02T17:58:00.001-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

ARTICLES:

Beaumanoir, A. "Institutional Care for Patients with Epilepsy: Historical Aspects from the Late 18th Century until Today," _Epilepsies_ 20(1)(2008): 45-50.

Gonsalves, J. "Reading Idiocy: Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy,'" _Wordworth Circle_ 38(3)(2007): 121-129.

Hocking, Clare. "The Way We Were: Romantic Assumptions of Pioneering Occupational Therapists in the United Kingdom," _British Journal of Occupational Therapy_ 71(4)(April 2008): 146-154.

McCabe, Helen. "Two Decades of Serving Children with Autism in the People's Republic of China: Achievements and Challenges of a State- run Mental Health Center," _Disability & Society_ 23(3)(2008): 271-282.

Oliphant, J. "'Touching the Light': The Invention of Literacy for the Blind, _Paedagogica Historica_ 44(1-2)(2008): 67-82.

Stone, Christopher, and Bencie Woll. "Dumb O Jemmy and Others: Deaf People, Interpreters, and the London Courts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," _Sign Language Studies_ 8(3)(2008): 226-240.

Todman, Don. "Warts and the Kings of Parthia: An Ancient Representation of Hereditary Neurofibromatosis Depicted in Coins," _Journal of the History of the Neurosciences_ 17(2)(2008): 141-146.

REVIEWS:

Thomas Docherty reviewed Allan Ingram and Michelle Faubert, _Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing: Representing the Insane_ (Palgrave MacMillan 2005), in _Modern Language Review_ 103 (1)(January 2008): 193.

DISSERTATIONS:

Verstraete, Pieter (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KULeuven, Belgium, 2008): "Disability History: A Foucauldian Perspective"

BOOKS:

Oliphant, J. _The Early Education of the Blind in Britain c. 1790-1900: Institutional Experience in England and Scotland_ (Edwin Mellen Press 2007).

Raemdonck, L. & Scheiris, I. _Ongehoord verleden. Dove frontvorming in België aan het begin van de 20ste eeuw_ (Gent: Fevlado-Diversus 2007) [Deaf advocacy in Belgium at the end beginning of the twentieth century].

Contributions received this month from: Pieter Verstraete

Compiled by Penny L. Richards

PhD Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: CFP Victorian Disability

2008-04-17T13:06:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: Victorian Disability Fall 2009

Submission Date: 15 September 2008

The Victorian Review invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue devoted to Victorian Disability. From the development of new sign systems for the blind and deaf, to the growth of eugenics, from Dickens’ one-legged man, Silas Wegg, to the disabled communities that populate the fiction of Charlotte Yonge, the Victorians were creating and consolidating ideas of ability, normalcy, difference, health, and illness.

This special issue seeks to explore the constructions of ability and disability that circulated in Victorian Britain and abroad. Recent critical work in Disability Studies has suggested disability as another mode of analysis alongside class, race, gender and sexuality in the understanding of culture. How can a focus on ableness complicate traditional readings of gender, class, race, and sexuality in the period? We particularly invite submissions that engage with the challenge that Disability Studies poses for the future of Victorian Studies. To what extent might Disability Studies pressure conventional disciplinary boundaries? How might we approach Victorian Disability Studies while recognizing that the term “disability” and the meanings we now grant to it as a general category did not exist in the Victorian period?

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

The Representation of Disability in Victorian Literature

Disability and Cultural Production (blind poets, deaf artists)

Disability and the Practice of Reading

Disability Communities and Cultures

Medicine and Disability

Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Industrialization and Disability

The Materiality of Disability (canes, wheelchairs, ear trumpets)

The Languages of Disability (Braille, Sign)

Celebrity and Disability

The Spectacularisation of Disability

Health, Disability and Invalidism

The Institutionalization of Disability (educational, governmental and charitable)

Essays must be between 5000 and 8000 words and formatted according to MLA guidelines.

Please submit electronic copies of essays to both of the issue’s guest editors by September 15, 2008:

Christopher Keep
Department of English
The University of Western Ontario
ckeep@uwo.ca

Jennifer Esmail
Department of English Queen’s University
3je@queensu.ca

ANNOUNCEMENT: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Race and Difference at Emory University, 2008-9

2008-04-14T21:31:00.000-07:00

Emory University

The Race and Difference Initiative (RDI)

Post-doctoral Fellowship Call for Applications

"Race and Difference in International Perspective"

The Race and Difference Strategic Initiative (RDI) at Emory University announces an RDI post-doctoral fellowship to begin fall, 2008, focusing on the theme "Race and Difference in International Perspective." RDI investigates race in relation to other forms of stigmatizing difference.

Research associated with the project should engage with one or more of the following issues in cross-national or cross-cultural perspective: how particular forms of difference are constructed, pathologized, and/or stereotyped; the intersectionality of different forms and categories of stigmatized difference; how the foregrounding of particular kinds of difference elide, mask, or otherwise inflect the perception and attribution of other forms of difference.

The field of specialization is open across the social sciences, humanities, and law. This is a one-year post-doctoral fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year that may be renewed on the basis of outstanding performance and availability of funds. The post-doctoral fellow will teach one course or equivalent per semester.

PhD dissertation or JD degree must be successfully completed at the time of application, and must have been received within the past six years.

The fellowship includes an annual stipend of $45,000, Emory benefits, a relocation allotment, $2,500 for research and travel, and up to $2,600 for equipment.

Information about RDI can be found on our website at http://www.rdi.emory.edu/.

Applications should include:

§ application letter that describes the candidate's research background and interests, including the title of the proposed post-doctoral research project

§ CV

§ abstract and annotated table of contents of the applicant's doctoral thesis or equivalent

§ 1-2 paragraph statement of teaching interests

§ writing sample/s

§ three letters of recommendation

Applications should be submitted as a single e-mail with the subject line "RDI post-doctoral fellowship," with constituent materials enclosed as file attachments.

Applications should be addressed to Ms. Corina Domozick, Financial Administrator, RDI and sent to her at cdomozi@emory.edu>.

Review will begin May 10, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Recommenders should supply references as file attachments to an e-mail message to Ms. Domozick with the subject line "RDI post-doc reference."

Emory University is an equal opportunity employer, and RDI specifically encourages applications from minorities and women, including those of international background or ancestry.

RESOURCE: Online bibliographies available

2008-04-14T16:02:00.000-07:00

1. Disability and Deafness in East Asia: social and educational responses, from antiquity to recent times:
http://independentliving.org/docs7/miles200708.html [also as .pdf]

This introduces and lists 900 articles, chapters and books having some concern with disability, deafness or mental disorder, in China, Korea and Japan, mostly in English, some in German or French, with some annotation.

2. Disability and Deafness in the context of Religion, Spirituality and Belief, in Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian Cultures and Histories.
http://independentliving.org/docs7/miles200707.html [also as .pdf]

This bibliography introduces and lists 450 items, across the beliefs, religions and cultures of the Middle East and much of Asia, from antiquity to the present.

3. Social Responses to Disability & Poverty in Economically Weaker Countries: trends, critique, and lessons usually not learnt.
http://www.independentliving.org/docs7/miles200603.html [also as .pdf]

This annotated bibliography has 250 modern and historical items from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and a few from S. America.

***
Many thanks to the Independent Living Institute staff in making these bibliographies freely available online.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Journal issue of interest

2008-04-14T14:34:00.000-07:00

Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal has published an issue on the "Philosophy of Disability."

The Table of Contents can be found here:

http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/

RESOURCE: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog

2008-04-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

I call attention to the Literature, Arts, and Medicine blog edited by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.

This blog is linked to and is an extension of The NYU School of Medicine medical humanities web site and the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. It is intended to be a forum for scholarly discussion of ongoing projects in medical, nursing, premedical, graduate, and postgraduate education and research that use the humanities, social sciences, and the arts to address current issues in medicine and bioscience– from a variety of perspectives.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/blog/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Distability History

2008-04-14T11:28:00.001-07:00

About once a month, and appearing as an an occasional feature of H-Disability, Penny L. Richards, a PhD Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Co-editor of H-Education and H-Disability, compiles and posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). These articles are usually found on the "current periodicals" shelves at a university library, from the most recent two calendar years (right now, 2007-2008). Some of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. Additional sources include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations.

She welcomes contributions offlist that are compiled into subsequent postings . Her usual caveats for contributions are:

"1) your definitions of history and disability may exclude some of these articles, and include others;
2) listing here does not necessarily constitute a recommendation of the articles involved; and
3) only English-language tables of contents or abstracts are usually culled (but works in other languages are welcome from contributors)."

ARTICLES:

Calabritto, Monica. "A Case of Melancholic Humors and 'Dilucida Intervalla,'" _Intellectual History Review_ 18(1)(March 2008): 139-154. (About a murder trial in Bologna, 1588, that focused on the defendant's mental health history)

Garton, Stephen. "'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia after 1945," _Gender & History_ 20(1)(April 2008): 48-67.

Gowland, Angus. "The Ethics of Renaissance Melancholy," _Intellectual History Review_ 18(1)(March 2008): 103-117.

Grubgeld, Elizabeth. "Body, Privacy, and Community: Reading Disability in the Late Fiction of Andre Dubus," _Religion & Literature_ 39(2)(Summer 2007): 33-54.

Hamlin, Alexandra, and Peter Oakes, "Reflections on Deinstitutionalization in the United Kingdom," _Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities_ 5(1)(March 2008): 47-55.

Jones, Edgar, and Shahina Rahman. "Framing Mental Illness, 1923-1939: The Maudsley Hospital and its Patients," _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 107-125.

Lachapelle, Sofie. "Educating Idiots: Utopian Ideals and Practical Organization Regarding Idiocy inside Nineteenth-Century French Asylums," _Science in Context_ 20(4)(December 2007): 627-648.

McCarthy, Angela. "Ethnicity, Migration, and the Lunatic Aslum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand," _Social History of Medicine_ 21(2008): 47-65.

Packham, Catherine. "Disability and Sympathetic Sociability in Enlightenment Scotland: the Case of Thomas Blacklock," _British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies_ 30(3)(2007): 423-438.

Rogers, Naomi. "'Silence has its own Stories': Elizabeth Kenny, Polio, and the Culture of Medicine," _Social History of Medicine_ 21 (2008): 145-161.

Rosen, Russell S. "Descriptions of the American Deaf Community, 1830-2000: Epistemic Foundations," _Disability & Society_ 23(2) (2008): 129-140.

Schweik, Susan. "Disability Politics and American Literary History: Some Suggestions," _American Literary History_ 20(2008): 217-237. (See also the response: Catherine Prendergast, "And Now, A Necessarily Pathetic Response: A Response to Susan Schweik," _Am Lit Hist_ 20(2008): 238-244.)

Sharpe, Andrew N. "Structured Like a Monster: Understanding Human Difference Through a Legal Category," _Law Critique_ 18 (2007): 207–28.

REVIEWS:

Joseph Melling reviewed Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston, _Miner's Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining_ (Ashgate 2007), in _Economic History Review_ 61(2)(May 2008): 514-515.

John Stewart reviewed Robert Bivins and John V. Pickstone, eds., _Medicine, Madness, and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter_ (Palgrave Macmillan 2007), in _Social History of Medicine_ 21 (1)(2008): 185-186.

Angela Turner reviewed Sally French, John Swain, Dorothy Atkinson and Michelle Moore, eds., _An Oral History of the Education of Visually Impaired People: Telling Stories for Inclusive Futures_ (Edwin Mellen Press 2006), in _Social History of Medicine_ 21(1)(2008): 186-187.

Robert T. Joy reviewed Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely, _Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War_ (Psychology Press 2005), in the _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(1) (2008): 240-241.

James W. Trent reviewed Paul J. Castellani, _From Snake Pits to Cash Cows: Politics and Public Institutions in New York_ (SUNY Press 2005), in the _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(1)(2008): 237-238.

Jeffrey S. Reznick reviewed Teresa Meade and David Serlin, eds., _Disability and History_ (issue 94 of _Radical History Review_, Winter 2006), in the _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(1) (2008): 226-227.

L. S. Jacyna reviewed Elizabeth Green Musselman, _Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain_ (SUNY Press 2006), in the _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 82(1)(2008): 200-201.

DISSERTATIONS:

Maryellen Riley (EdD, Boston University 2007): "The Education of Children with Disabilities in Germany from 1945-1970"

Carolyn Ball (PhD, Capella University 2007): "The History of American Sign Language Interpreting Education"

Touba Ghadessi Fleming (PhD, Northwestern University 2007): "Identity and Physical Deformity in Italian Court Portraits, 1550-1650: Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati"

Patrick Gonder (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2007): "Like a Monstrous Jigsaw: Genetics, Evolution, and the Body in the Horror Films of the 1950s"

Contributions received this month from: David M. Turner, Jonathan Erlen

Compiled by Penny L. Richards
PhD Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@earthlink.net