ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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