Social histories of disability and deformity
By: edited by David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg.
Contributors: Turner, David M., 1972-; Stagg, Kevin, 1958-
Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine -- 25
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415360982; 9780203008529
Subjects: People with disabilities -- History; Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects; Sociology of disability -- History; Social history; Disabled Persons -- history; Abnormalities -- history; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; History, Modern 1601-; Social Perception
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Representing physical difference: the materiality of the monstrous / Kevin Stagg; title: "When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it": the rhetoric of smallpox at the restoration / David E. Shuttleton; title: Plague spots / Hal Gladfelder; title: "Wonderful effects!!!": graphic satires of vaccination in the first decade of the nineteenth century / Suzanne Nunn; title: Disciplining disabled bodies: the development of orthopaedic medicine in Britain, c.1800-1939 / Anne Borsay; title: Making deaf children talk: changes in educational policy towards the deaf in the French Third Republic / François Buton; title: Eugenics, modernity, and nationalism / Ayça Alemdaroglu; title: "Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats": the inter-war debate on sterilization of the mentally deficient / Sharon Morris; title: "That bastard's following me": mentally ill Australian veterans struggling to maintain control / Kristy Muir; title: Regulated bodies: disability studies and the controlling professions / Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell.