Disability History – all Bücher

Aus der Geschichte gelernt?

Hat die deutsche Gesellschaft nach 1945 "aus der Geschichte gelernt", oder ist das nur eine bequeme Behauptung? Linien des eugenischen Denkens, "tödliches Mitleid" und ableistische Gru…

available from 30.4.2026.

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How do we explain the conspicuous absence of disability from the histories we write? What forces and factors create this dynamic? How can disability be everywhere and nowhere, present and absent, and obvi…

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Heather Vrana,
Histories of Disability in Latin America

Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability's place in the region's past, bringing…

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Viviane A. Blatter
Separiert zur Eingliederung?

Disability History - volume 13

Wie entwickelte sich von 1960 bis 2008 die Sonderschulung von Kindern mit Körperbehinderungen in der Deutschschweiz? Im Zentrum dieser Studie steht die Rolle der Invalidenversicherung (IV), die als sozial…

available from 25.6.2026.

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Stephen Unwin
Beautiful Lives

'This book is both heart-rending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately, it's about love. He teaches us humanity.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse …

available from 4.6.2026.

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Stephen Unwin
Beautiful Lives

Praise for Beautiful Lives: 'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving.' Gyles Brandreth 'This book is both heartrending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately it'…

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Dagmar Herzog
The Question of Unworthy Life

The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today--and the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand…

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Matt Malzkuhn, Ted Supalla
Home Movies Hardly Silent

Home Movies Hardly Silentis an in-depth study and analysis of Deaf-made home movies during the silent era of amateur filmmaking (1925-1970s), showing how Deaf people used film technology to textualize sig…

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Scot Danforth
An Independent Man

The first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of refor…

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Jim Reisler
The Talented Misters Hoy and Taylor

They couldn't hear the roar of the crowd---but the baseball world heard them loud and clear. Meet the deaf baseball stars who rewrote the rules.Billy Hoy and Luther Taylor endure as two of the most fascin…

available from 12.5.2026.

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Sona Kazemi
Disabling Relations

How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations , Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, …

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Dan Roche
Eyes by Hand

"A personal and intimate view not only of the craft of eye-making but of the relationship that develops between patients and their ocularist"--

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Anna Myjak-Pycia
Another Modernism

Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.In doing so, it tells the st…

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Emily Mendenhall
Invisible Illness

"An incisive study that illuminates the myriad complexities of chronic illness."- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Movingly spotlights the struggles of chronically ill patients."- Publi…

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Janet Harbord,
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characteri…

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Anna Myjak-Pycia
Another Modernism

Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.In doing so, it tells the st…

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Jen Soriano
Nervous

"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and w…

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