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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKS:

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

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

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

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKS:

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

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

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

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

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

compiled by

Penny L. Richards

PhD Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2009 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium

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

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

See http://disabilitycompendium.org/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKS:

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

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

NEW BOOK:

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKS:

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

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

DISSERTATIONS:

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

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

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


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

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