H-Net Book Reviews for H-Disability

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Adams, Rachel

Title: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Reviewer: Martha L. Rose


Andrews, Jonathan and Andrew Scull

Title: Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
Reviewer: John S. Haller, Jr.


Bakke, Dave

Title: God Knows His Name: The True story of John Doe No. 24
Reviewer: Steven Noll


Barasch, Moshe

Title: Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
Reviewer: Edward Wheatley


Burch, Susan

Title: Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to 1942
Reviewer: Brad Byrom

Davis, Lennard J.
Title: Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions
Reviewer: Susan Burch

Freeberg, Ernest
Title: The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
Reviewer: Hannah Joyner

Gaillard, Henri
Title: Gaillard in Deaf America: A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917
Reviewer: R.A.R. Edwards

Gerber, David A., ed.
Title: Disabled Veterans in History. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability.
Reviewer: Daniel J. Wilson

Gitter, Elisabeth
Title: The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
Reviewer: Hannah Joyner

Husson, Therese-Adele
Title: Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Reviewer: Gay L. Gullickson

Johnson, Mary and Barrett Shaw, eds
Title: To Ride the Public's Buses: The Fight that Built a Movement
Reviewer: Richard K. Scotch

Johnston, Basil
Title: Crazy Dave
Reviewer: Robert Bogdan

Klages, Mary
Title: Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America
Reviewer: Wendy Kline

Kline, Wendy
Title: Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Reviewer: Molly Ladd-Taylor

Longmore, Paul K.
Title: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Reviewer: John Vickrey Van Cleve

Longmore, Paul K. and Lauri Umansky, eds.
Title: The New Disability History: American Perspectives
Reviewer: Brenda Jo Bruggemann

Ott, Katherine and David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm, eds
Title: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Reviewer: Dudley S. Childress

Scotch, Richard K.
Title: From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Reviewer: Gerald V. O'Brien

Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn
Title: Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Reviewer: Stephen Gulley