Eli Clare. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 240 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6287-6; $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-6276-0.
Reviewed by Laurel Daen (College of William & Mary)
Published on H-Disability (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Tanja Reiffenrath. Memoirs of Well-Being: Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability. Body Cultures Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2016. 321 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-3546-1.
Reviewed by Travis Chi Wing Lau (University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins, Rebecca Preston, eds. Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725-1970. Perspectives in Economic and Social History Series. New York: Routledge Press, 2013. 256 pp. $153.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84893-366-8.
Reviewed by Dee Hoole (University of Aberdeen)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Vicky Long. Destigmatising Mental Illness. Disability History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8581-9.
Reviewed by Verusca Calabria (Nottingham Trent University)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Pauline Leader. And No Birds Sing. Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56368-668-9.
Reviewed by Susan Burch (Middlebury College)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Petteri Pietikainen. Madness: A History. New York: Routledge, 2015. 354 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-71316-0; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-71318-4.
Reviewed by Ian Miller (University of Ulster)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Adam Cohen. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 416 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59420-418-0.
Reviewed by Lauren Thompson (Georgia State University)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
David Seed, Stephen C. Kenny, Chris Williams, eds. Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78138-250-9.
Reviewed by Sarah Handley-Cousins (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Ruthie-Marie Beckwith. Disability Servitude: From Peonage to Poverty. New Yoro: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 184 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-54030-0.
Reviewed by Gareth Millward (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Published on H-Disability (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Audra Jennings. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 296 pp. 55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4851-7.
Reviewed by Beth Linker (University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Sara Newman. Writing Disability: A Critical History. Disability in Society Series. Boulder: FirstForumPress, 2013. vii + 207 pp. $62.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-935049-54-8.
Reviewed by Jane Buckingham (University of Canterbury)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Matthew Warner Osborn. Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pp. $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-09989-7.
Reviewed by Iain Smith (Gartnavel Royal Hospital)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Karen Walloch. The Antivaccine Heresy. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. 400 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-537-3.
Reviewed by Julie Adamo (Mount Holyoke College)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Sonya Freeman Loftis. Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01800-7.
Reviewed by Paula Hellal (Birkbeck University of London)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Laure Murat. The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 304 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-02573-5.
Reviewed by Geoffrey F. Reaume (York University, Toronto)
Published on H-Disability (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
