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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

To find additional information see below:

• Read an Excerpt


• The Kirkus Review


• As Reviewed by the Internet Review of Books

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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