Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Re-membering the past : reflections on disability histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis
  • Part 1. Family, community, and daily life : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability, dependency, and the family in the early United States / Daniel Blackie
  • Thomas Cameron's "Pure and guileless life," 1806-1870 : affection and developmental disability in a North Carolina family / Penny L. Richards
  • Parents and professionals : parents' reflections on professionals, the support system, and the family in the twentieth-century United States / Allison C. Carey
  • Historical perceptions of autism in Brazil : professional treatment, family advocacy, and autistic pride, 1943-2010 / Pamela Block and Fátima Gonçalves Cavalcante
  • Negotiating disability : mobilization and organization among landmine survivors in late twentieth-century northern Uganda / Herbert Muyinda
  • Part 2. Cultural histories : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability things : material culture and American disability history, 1700-2010 / Katherine Ott
  • The Contergan scandal : media, medicine, and thalidomide in 1960s West Germany / Elsbeth Bösl
  • "Lest we forget" : disabled veterans and the politics of war remembrance in the United States / John M. Kinder
  • Part 3. Bodies, medicine, and contested knowledge : part introduction and guiding questions. Smallpox, disability, and survival in nineteenth-century France : rewriting paradigms from a new epidemic script / Catherine Kudlick
  • "Unfit for ordinary purposes" : disability, slaves, and decision making in the antebellum American south / Dea H. Boster
  • Rehabilitation staged : how Soviet doctors "cured" disability in the second World War / Frances L. Bernstein
  • The curious case of the "professional hemophiliac" : medicine, disability, and the contested value of normality in the United States, 1940-2010 / Stephen Pemberton
  • Border disorders : mental illness, feminist metaphor, and the disordered female psyche in the twentieth-century United States / Susan K. Cahn
  • Part 4. Citizenship and belonging : part introduction and guiding questions. The paradox of social progress : the deaf cultural community in France and the ideals of the third republic at the turn of the twentieth century / Anne Quartararo
  • Property, disability, and the making of the incompetent citizen in the United States, 1860s-1940s / Kim E. Nielsen
  • "Salvaging the Negro" : race, rehabilitation, and the body politic in World War I America, 1917-1924 / Paul R.D. Lawrie
  • Engendering and regendering disability : gender and disability activism in postwar America / Audra Jennings
  • Self-advocacy and blind activists : the origins of the disability rights movement in twentieth-century India / Jagdish Chander.