Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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.