1st Edition
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity Bodies, Images and Experiences
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Approaching Anomalous Bodies
David M. Turner
Part One: Discipline and Deformity: The Medical and Moral World of Monstrosity
1. Representing Physical Difference: the Materiality of the Monstrous
Kevin Stagg
2. ‘When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it’: The Rhetoric of Smallpox at the Restoration
David E. Shuttleton
3. Plague Spots
Hal Gladfelder
4. ‘Wonderful Effects!!!’ Graphic Satires of Vaccination in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century
Suzanne Nunn
Part Two: Controlling Disabled Bodies: Medicine, Politics and Policy
5. Disciplining Disabled Bodies: The Development of Orthopaedic Medicine in Britain, c.1800-1939
Anne Borsay
6. Making Deaf Children Talk: Changes in Educational Policy towards the Deaf in the French Third Republic
François Buton
7. Eugenics, Modernity and Nationalism
Ayça Alemdaroglu
8. ‘Human dregs at the bottom of our national vats’: The Inter-War Debate on Sterilization of the Mentally Deficient
Sharon Morris
9. ‘That bastard’s following me!’ Mentally ill Australian Veterans Struggling to Maintain Control
Kristy Muir
10. Afterword: Regulated Bodies: Disability Studies and the Controlling Professions
Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
Biography
David M. Turner is Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University. He formerly taught at the University of Glamorgan where he was director of the ‘Controlling Bodies: the Regulation of Conduct 1650–2000’ project. He has published widely on the social and cultural history of early modern Britain, including the monograph Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England 1660–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). His current research focuses on the idea of the ‘body beautiful’ in the eighteenth century and connections between disability and criminality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Kevin Stagg lectures in History at Cardiff University and recently contributed a Chapter on the body for Garthine Walker (ed.), Writing Early Modern History (Hodder Arnold, 2005). His research interests range from the body and disability in history to early modern print culture, transport and trade.
