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
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