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name: Susan Schweik
about: My book The Ugly Laws has just come out from NYU Press (May 2009). In it you can find everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. laws prohibiting people who were "diseased, maimed, deformed so as to be unsightly or disgusting objects" from "exposing themselves to public view." You can also find information about the most famous disabled person you never heard of. My book The Ugly Laws has just come out from NYU Press (May 2009). In it you can find everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. laws prohibiting people who were "diseased, maimed, deformed so as to be unsightly or disgusting objects" from "exposing themselves to public view." You can also find information about the most famous disabled person you never heard of. ...more