Bücher der Reihe Disability History

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .

This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people's working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain's Industrial Revolution. -- .

This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'. -- .

This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. -- .

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .

Sets a case study of deaf people's leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community; questions perceptions of deafness as a disability; shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. -- .

The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- .

Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. -- .

Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

Fools and idiots? 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 historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled, and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. This book will be required reading for anyone studying or working in disability studies, history of medicine, social history and the history of ideas.

A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. -- .

Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .

This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .

How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .

Wie lebte man in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - von der direkten Nachkriegszeit bis zum Beginn der Inklusion in den Jahren der Wiedervereinigung um 1990 - in Haushalten mit behinderten Kindern? Raphael Rössel stellt anhand von Egodokumenten und Schriftwechseln innerhäusliche Abläufe und Aushandlungsprozesse sowie Konfliktlinien nach außen dar und lässt erstmals westdeutsche Heranwachsende und ihre Eltern selbst zu Wort kommen. Er dokumentiert eindrucksvoll das Streben dieser Haushalte, trotz vermeintlicher Makel als »Familien« anerkannt zu werden. Zudem verdeutlicht er anhand zahlreicher Beispiele die Herausforderung, Alltage zu organisieren und Kindern eine bestmögliche Förderung zu geben, ohne individuelle Ansprüche zu vergessen. Nominiert für die Shortlist des Hedwig Hintze Preises 2023

Psychiatrische Anstalten und Einrichtungen für Menschen mit Behinderungen erregten in jüngerer Zeit öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, da Betroffene ihre dort gemachten Erfahrungen von Gewalt, Vernachlässigung und Ressourcenmangel publik machten. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren die Entwicklung der institutionellen Strukturen seit der Nachkriegszeit und ordnen das Handeln der Anstaltsleitungen und die wissenschaftlichen Konzepte, die der Ausübung von Gewalt Vorschub leisteten, zeitgeschichtlich ein. Zudem geben sie Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte in den Heimen aus der Sicht der Betroffenen.