Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan, Alison Quaggin Harkin, eds. Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. 286 pp. $94.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4399-1387-1.
Reviewed by Henry C. Alphin Jr (Drexel University)
Published on H-Disability (March, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Dennis A. Doyle. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968. Rochester Studies in Medical History Series. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016. viii + 260 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-492-5.
Reviewed by Beth R. Handler (Independent)
Published on H-Disability (March, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
David J. Connor, Ferri, Beth A., Subini A. Annamma, eds. DisCrit - Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2015. 288 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8077-5667-6.
Reviewed by Amos Yong (Regent University)
Published on H-Disability (February, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 398 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2489-1; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3008-3.
Reviewed by Holly Caldwell (University of Delaware)
Published on H-Disability (February, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Greg Eghigian, ed. The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health. Routledge Histories Series. New York: Routledge, 2017. 404 pp. $225.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-78160-3.
Reviewed by Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Published on H-Disability (February, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50718
Steven J. Taylor. Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 191 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-60026-4.
Reviewed by David Wright (McGill University)
Published on H-Disability (January, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Shawn Chandler Bingham, Sara E. Green. Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2017. 200 pp,. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62637-520-8; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-62637-565-9.
Reviewed by Daniel J. Wilson (Muhlenberg College)
Published on H-Disability (January, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Jenni Kuuliala. Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages: Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Canonization. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. 380 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-2-503-55185-2.
Reviewed by Christiane N. Fabbri (Yale University)
Published on H-Disability (January, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Catharine Coleborne. Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910. Studies in Imperialism Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 240 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8724-0.
Reviewed by Natalie Spagnuolo (York University, Toronto)
Published on H-Disability (January, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
James W. Trent. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Illustrations, tables. 392 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-939618-4.
Reviewed by Daniel Werges (City University of New York)
Published on H-Disability (January, 2018)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Patrick Devlieger, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Steven E. Brown, Megan Strickfaden, eds. Rethinking Disability: World Perspectives in Culture and Society (Second Edition). Antwerp: Maklu, Garant & Cyclus, 2016. 514 pp. $58.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-441-3417-9.
Reviewed by Celeste Sharpe (George Mason University)
Published on H-Disability (December, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Heather R. Perry. Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine and Modernity in WWI Germany. Disability History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Illustrations. 240 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8924-4.
Reviewed by Emmeline Burdett (University College London)
Published on H-Disability (November, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Andrew Scull. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 448 pp. Illustrations. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-16615-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-17344-3.
Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, eds. Culture-Theory-Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Disability Studies: Body - Power - Difference Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017. 280 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-2533-2.
Reviewed by Pamela L. Dale (University of Exeter)
Published on H-Disability (October, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Marius Turda, ed. The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 656 pp. $176.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-3175-9.
Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Johns Hopkins University)
Published on H-Disability (October, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=49619
