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Re-Membering the Past: Reflections on Disability Histories—Susan Burch and Michael Rembis
Part One. Family, Community, and Daily Life
1. Disability, Dependency, and the Family in the Early United States—Daniel Blackie
2. Thomas Cameron's "Pure and Guileless Life," 1806–1870: Affection and Developmental Disability in
3. Parents and Professionals: Parents' Reflections on Professionals, the Support System, and the Fam
4. Historical Perceptions of Autism in Brazil: Professional Treatment, Family Advocacy, and Autistic
5. Negotiating Disability: Mobilization and Organization among Landmine Survivors in Late Twentieth-
Part Two. Cultural Histories
6. Disability Things: Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700–2010—Katherine Ott
7. The Contergan Scandal: Media, Medicine, and Thalidomide in 1960s West Germany—Elsbeth Bösl
8. "Lest We Forget": Disabled Veterans and the Politics of War Rememberance in the United States—Joh
Part Three: Bodies, Medicine, and Contested Knowledge
9. Smallpox, Disability, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century France: Rewriting Paradigms from a New E
10. "Unfit for Ordinary Purposes": Disability, Slaves, and Decision Making in the Antebellum America
11. Rehabilitation Staged: How Soviet Doctors "Cured" Disability in the Second World War—Frances L.
12. The Curious Case of the "Professional Hemophiliac": Medicine, Disability and the Contested Value
13. Border Disorders: Mental Illness, Feminist Metaphor, and the Disordered Female Psych in the Twen
Part Four. Citizenship and Belonging
14. The Paradox of Social Progress: The Deaf Cultural Community in France in the Ideals of the Third
15. Property, Disability, and the Making of the Incompetent Citizen in the United States, 1860s–1940
16. "Salvaging the Negro": Race, Rehabilitation, and the Body Politic in World War I American, 1917–
17. Engendering and Regendering Disability: Gender and Disability Activism in Postwar America—Audra
18. Self-Advocacy and Blind Activists: The Origins of the Disability Rights Movement in Twentieth-Ce
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