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Eradicating deafness?
Genetics, pathology, and diversity in twentieth-century America
By Marion Andrea Schmidt
Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8239-5
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£20.00
Pre-OrderDisability and the Victorians
Attitudes, interventions, legacies
Edited by Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton and Jaipreet Virdi
Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6392-9
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£25.00
Buy NowShell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
A difficult homecoming
By Michael Robinson
With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6249-6
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£25.00
Buy NowIntellectual disability
A conceptual history, 1200-1900
Edited by Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey and Timothy Stainton
This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5164-3
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£25.00
Buy NowMeasuring difference, numbering normal
Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period
By Coreen McGuire
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. Using measurement technology as a lens, and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4317-4
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£30.00
Buy NowDisability in industrial Britain
A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948
By Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin and Steven Thompson
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2431-9
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£30.00
Buy NowFools and idiots?
Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages
By Irina Metzler
This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9637-2
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£30.00
Buy NowDisability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780-1880
By David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1815-8
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£30.00
Buy NowRecycling the disabled
Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany
By Heather Perry
Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0677-3
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£30.00
Buy NowFraming the moron
The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era
By Gerald O'Brien
Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9107-4
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£19.99
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