Reviews

Author:

Adam Montgomery

Reviewer:

John Casey

Casey on Montgomery, 'The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan'

Adam Montgomery. The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4995-1.

Reviewed by John Casey (University of Illinois at Chicago) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele, Jessica Robyn Cadwallader, eds.

Reviewer:

Lisa Beckmann

Beckmann on Goggin and Steele and Cadwallader, 'Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture'

Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele, Jessica Robyn Cadwallader, eds. Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2017. x + 163 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-30248-8.

Reviewed by Lisa Beckmann (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Peter Cryle, Elizabeth Stephens

Reviewer:

Verusca Calabria

Calabria on Cryle and Stephens, 'Normality: A Critical Genealogy'

Peter Cryle, Elizabeth Stephens. Normality: A Critical Genealogy. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2017. 440 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-48386-3; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-48405-1.

Reviewed by Verusca Calabria (Nottingham Trent University) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, ed.

Reviewer:

Susan Anderson

Anderson on Donaldson, 'Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health'

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, ed. Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health. Literary Disability Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 242 pp. $119.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-92665-0.

Reviewed by Susan Anderson (Sheffield Hallam University) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Asha Hans, ed.

Reviewer:

Shubhangi G. Mehrotra

Mehrotra on Hans, 'Disability, Gender, and the Trajectories of Power'

Asha Hans, ed. Disability, Gender, and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015. 292 pp. $16.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-5150123-7.

Reviewed by Shubhangi G. Mehrotra (University at Buffalo SUNY) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53123

Author:

Diane Miller Sommerville

Reviewer:

Daniel J. Wilson

Wilson on Sommerville, 'Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South'

Diane Miller Sommerville. Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 448 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4356-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4330-4.

Reviewed by Daniel J. Wilson (Muhlenberg College) Published on H-Disability (March, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, Kim E. Nielsen, eds.

Reviewer:

Emmeline Burdett

Burdett on Rembis and Kudlick and Nielsen, 'The Oxford Handbook of Disability History'

Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, Kim E. Nielsen, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 552 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-023495-9.

Reviewed by Emmeline Burdett (University College London) Published on H-Disability (March, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Dustin Galer

Reviewer:

Jason Ellis

Ellis on Galer, 'Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada'

Dustin Galer. Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 328 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-2130-1; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0131-0.

Reviewed by Jason Ellis (University of British Columbia) Published on H-Disability (February, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey, Tim Stainton, eds.

Reviewer:

Ian Miller

Miller on McDonagh and Goodey and Stainton, 'Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900'

Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey, Tim Stainton, eds. Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900. Disability History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 296 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5261-2531-6.

Reviewed by Ian Miller (University of Ulster) Published on H-Disability (January, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Teodor Mladenov

Reviewer:

Magdalena Zdrodowska

Zdrodowska on Mladenov, 'Disability and Postsocialism'

Teodor Mladenov. Disability and Postsocialism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. 122 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-23446-8.

Reviewed by Magdalena Zdrodowska (Uniwersytet Jagielloński / Jagiellonian University) Published on H-Disability (January, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53575

Author:

Susan A. Ashley

Reviewer:

Jessie Hewitt

Hewitt on Ashley, '"Misfits" in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference'

Susan A. Ashley. "Misfits" in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 312 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-01339-1.

Reviewed by Jessie Hewitt (University of Redlands) Published on H-Disability (January, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52790

Author:

Edna Edith Sayers

Reviewer:

Holly Caldwell

Caldwell on Sayers, 'The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet'

Edna Edith Sayers. The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet. Lebanon: ForeEdge, 2017. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5126-0051-3.

Reviewed by Holly Caldwell (Chestnut Hill College) Published on H-Disability (December, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Connie L. Scarborough

Reviewer:

Iona McCleery

McCleery on Scarborough, 'Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced'

Connie L. Scarborough. Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced. Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 252 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-8964-875-4.

Reviewed by Iona McCleery (University of Leeds) Published on H-Disability (December, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Bianca Frohne Cordula Nolte, Uta Halle and Sonja Kerth, eds.

Reviewer:

Will Rogers

Rogers on Cordula Nolte, 'Dis/Ability History Der Vormoderne: Premodern Dis/Ability History'

Bianca Frohne Cordula Nolte, Uta Halle and Sonja Kerth, eds. Dis/Ability History Der Vormoderne: Premodern Dis/Ability History. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2017. 512 pp. EUR 58.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-939020-83-7.

Reviewed by Will Rogers (University of Louisiana, Munroe) Published on H-Disability (November, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Melanie Yergeau

Reviewer:

Marion Schmidt

Schmidt on Yergeau, 'Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness'

Melanie Yergeau. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Raleigh: Duke University Press Books, 2018. 312 pp. $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-7011-6; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-7020-8.

Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Georg August Universität, Göttingen) Published on H-Disability (November, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

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Casey on Montgomery, 'The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan'

Beckmann on Goggin and Steele and Cadwallader, 'Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture'

Calabria on Cryle and Stephens, 'Normality: A Critical Genealogy'

Anderson on Donaldson, 'Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health'

Mehrotra on Hans, 'Disability, Gender, and the Trajectories of Power'

Wilson on Sommerville, 'Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South'

Burdett on Rembis and Kudlick and Nielsen, 'The Oxford Handbook of Disability History'

Ellis on Galer, 'Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada'

Miller on McDonagh and Goodey and Stainton, 'Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900'

Zdrodowska on Mladenov, 'Disability and Postsocialism'

Hewitt on Ashley, '"Misfits" in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference'

Caldwell on Sayers, 'The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet'

McCleery on Scarborough, 'Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced'

Rogers on Cordula Nolte, 'Dis/Ability History Der Vormoderne: Premodern Dis/Ability History'

Schmidt on Yergeau, 'Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness'

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