What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such stan…
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such stan…
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such stan…
Since the end of the 20th century' disability has become a new and effective research instrument. One of the most important fields that currently make use of disability as an analytical tool is history. This book is structured into four main parts: Challenging methodologies, pow…
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mentaldisabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
This text explores the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule. The author seeks to explain how blindness, deafness and muteness, intersex conditions, and certain mental impairments were understood and experienced …
This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, howev…
Difference as an inquiry -- Renaissance portrait and intellectual frame -- Perfected miniatures - dwarves at court -- A civilized savage - the hirsute's conquest -- Audible absence - the castrato's voice
Explores the history of disability activism, concentrating on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II to address federal disability policy. Through extensive archival research, the author…
Outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late Medieval central Arab Islamic lands. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodi…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
This book examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Th…
"Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide swee…
"Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide swee…
Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how ""able"" and ""disabled"" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slaver…