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, 2010-2011). Most of them are culled from online Table of Contents sites maintained by journal publishers. We also include book chapters in new collections, cites for new books, and cites for review articles, new books, and new dissertations. Contributions are always welcomed offlist and are compiled into subsequent postings by the editor.

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOK:

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

Contributions received this month from: Geoffrey Reaume

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOK:

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

CONFERENCE REVIEW:

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


REVIEWS:

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

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


BOOKS:

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

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

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

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


DISSERTATIONS:

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


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


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

RESOURCE: Ouch!

Ouch!

 

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKS:

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

Contributions received this month from: Kristina Richardson, Tricia Salata

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: Nancy Kathleen Seyden 1947-2011

Obituary

Nancy Kathleen Seyden

 1947-2011

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

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

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

                           

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Current Journal Articles on Disability History

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

The usual caveats:

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

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

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

ARTICLES:

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

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

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

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

REVIEWS:

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

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

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

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

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

Contributions received this month from: Dustin Galer, John Erlen

compiled by

Penny L. Richards PhD

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability

turley2@earthlink.net