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1. Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

   Bodies, Images and Experiences

   Edited by David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

   Imagining Physical Impairment

   By David M. Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge