A Cultural History of Disability

Volumes 1-6

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Description

How has our understanding and treatment of disability evolved in Western culture? How has it been represented and perceived in different social and cultural conditions?

In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by over 50 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes describe different kinds of physical and mental disabilities, their representations and receptions, and what impact they have had on society and everyday life.

Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.

The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 500 CE); 2. Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1400 - 1650) ; 4. Long Eighteenth Century (1650 - 1800); 5. Long Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 – 2000+).

Themes (and chapter titles) are: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; mental health.

The page extent is approximately 2,000pp with c. 200 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.

A Cultural History of Disability is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .

Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity
Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK
1. Introduction: How and Whether to Say 'Disability' in Ancient Greek and Latin, Christian Laes
2. Atypical Bodies: Extraordinary Body Treatment and Consideration, Caroline Husquin,
3. Mobility Impairment: Identifying Lived Experiences in Roman Italy, Emma-Jayne Graham
4. Chronic Pain and Illness: Pain and Meaning in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Laurien Zurhake
5. Blindness: Visual Impairments in Antiquity, Frederik Van den Abeele
6. Deafness: Sensory Impairment as Communication Disability, Past and Present, Ellen Adams
7. Speech: Lack of Language, Lack of Power: Social Aspects of the Discourse about Communication Disorders in the Graeco-Roman World, Peter Kruschwitz
8. Learning Difficulties: Intellectual Disability (= ID) in the Ancient Near East (ANE), Classical and Late Antiquity, Edgar Kellenberger
9. Mental Health Issues: Theory and Practice in the Ancient World, Jerry Toner

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA, Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Ohio, USA, and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton
2. Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden
3. Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall
4. Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley
5. Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer
6. Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy
7. Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer
8. Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance
Edited by Susan Anderson, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Liam Haydon, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK
1. Atypical Bodies, Simone Chess
2. Mobility Impairment, Liam Haydon and Edmond Smith
3. Pain, Adleen Crapo
4. Blindness, Bianca Frohne
5. Deafness, Jennifer Nelson
6. Speech, Susan Anderson
7. Learning Difficulties, Emily Lathrop
8. Mental Health, Sonya Freeman Loftis

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by D. Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA and Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: Anomalous Bodies in the Eighteenth Century, Sara van den Berg
2. Mobility Impairment, David Turner
3. Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain and Illness in the Long Eighteenth Century, Isabella Lucy Cooper
4. Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren't You Surprised I Can Speak?”, Kate E. Tunstall
5. Deafness: Deafness in the Age of Enlightenment, Kristin Lindgren
6. Speech: Speech and Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dwight Codr and Jared Richman
7. Learning Difficulties: Intellectual disability in the long eighteenth century, C. F. Goodey and Simon Jarrett
8. Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Madpeople in the Eighteenth Century, Allison Hobgood

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Joyce Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University San Marcos, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach
2. Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier
3. Chronic Pain and Illness: “The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind,” Maria Frawley
4. Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne
5. Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall
6. Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin
7. Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of “Idiocy” in the Nineteenth Century, Patrick
McDonagh
8. Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age
Edited by David T. Mitchell, George Washington University, USA and Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University, USA
1. Atypical Bodies, Bee Scherer
2. Mobility Impairment, Fiona Kumari Campbell
3. Chronic Pain, Theodora Danylevich
4. Blindness, Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko
5. Deafness, Sam Yates
6. Speech, Zephyrous Zahari
7. Learning difficulties, Owen Barden
8. Mental Health Issues, Anne McGuire

Product details

Published Feb 06 2020
Format Pack - Printer Assembled
Edition 1st
Extent 0
ISBN 9781350029538
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 200 bw illus
Dimensions Not specified
Series The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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