David Scrimgeour. Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There. York: York Publishing Services Ltd, 2016. 468 pp. $142.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9933715-0-9.
Reviewed by Morag Allan Campbell (University of St Andrews) Published on H-Disability (August, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Sarah J. Melcher, Mikeal C. Parsons, Amos Yong, eds. The Bible and Disability: A Commentary. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2017. xi + 498 pp. $59.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60258-621-5; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4813-0853-3.
Jasbir K. Puar. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 296 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6918-9.
Reviewed by M. Lynn Rose (American University of Iraq, Sulaimani) Published on H-Disability (July, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52822
William B. Swett. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces. Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2017. 128 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56368-683-2.
Reviewed by Pauline Guerin (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Disability (July, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Jie Yang. Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition and Therapeutic Governance. Newark: Polity Press, 2017. 262 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5095-0296-7.
Reviewed by Shu Wan (University of Iowa) Published on H-Disability (July, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52757
Elizabeth Barnes. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. Studies in Feminist Philosophy Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xii + 200 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-873258-7.
Reviewed by Amos Yong (Fuller Seminary) Published on H-Disability (June, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Breda Carty. Managing Their Own Affairs: The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2017. 268 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-944838-10-2.
Reviewed by Esme Cleall (University of Sheffield) Published on H-Disability (June, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Molly Ladd-Taylor. Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 304 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2372-2.
Reviewed by Holly Caldwell (Chestnut Hill College) Published on H-Disability (June, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Paul J. Croce. Young William James Thinking. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 392 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2365-4.
Reviewed by Daniel J. Wilson (Muhlenberg College) Published on H-Disability (June, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Rana A. Hogarth. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 290 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3287-2; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3286-5.
Reviewed by Stefanie Kennedy (University of New Brunswick) Published on H-Disability (May, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
John A. Casey Jr. New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Reconstructing America Series. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 248 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-6539-8.
Reviewed by Sarah Handley-Cousins (University at Buffalo SUNY) Published on H-Disability (May, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Theodore Jun Yoo. It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Illustrations. 248 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28930-7.
Reviewed by Shu Wan (University of Iowa) Published on H-Disability (May, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
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Beng Yeong Ng. Till The Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993. Second Edition. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. 340 pp. $34.00 (paper), ISBN 978-981-4722-40-7.
Reviewed by Shu Wan (University of Iowa) Published on H-Disability (May, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Sharrona Pearl. Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 272 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-46136-6; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-46122-9.
Reviewed by Andrea Zittlau (Universität Rostock) Published on H-Disability (April, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale, eds. Mental Health Nursing: The Working Lives of Paid Careers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 288 pp. GBP 70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-9693-8.
Reviewed by Alice Brumby (University of Huddersfield) Published on H-Disability (April, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
