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• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions
• 2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century "Museums of Anatomy" and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic 3.From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition
• 4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Ecorche Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular with a wide range of audiences, successfully marketed as educational facilities for medical professionals as well as improving entertainments for the general public. Partly a product of the public sanitation and health reform movements that began in the eighteenth century, partly a form of popular spectacle, early public anatomical exhibitions drew on two apparently distinct cultural developments: firstly, the professionalisation of medicine from the mid 1700s and the increasingly central role of practical anatomy within it; secondly, the rise of a culture of public spectacles such as world fairs, public museums, circuses and side shows, and the use of new visual technologies these spaces pioneered. Such spectacles often drew on medical discourses as a way of lending legitimacy to their displays of human bodies, while their popularity also helped make the then-contentious practice of anatomy publicly acceptable. This book examines the cultural work performed by such exhibitions and their role in (re)producing new ways of seeing and knowing the body over the modern era. While public anatomical exhibitions might seem to occupy a marginal position in the history of popular culture and that of medicine, their distinctive intermixing of the medical and the spectacular has made them an influential and intensely productive cultural space, an important site of emergence for new ideas about bodily health and care. This book traces the influential role of such exhibitions in popularising a distinctly modern idea of the body as something requiring constant work and careful self-cultivation-an idea which continues to play a central role in the contemporary fascination with practices and possibilities of self-improvement. Through a series of representative case studies-including eighteenth-century exhibitions of anatomical Venuses, nineteenth-century anatomical museums 'for men only' that served as quack clinics for sexual disorders, traditional and contemporary freak shows, and the recent public display of real human remains in Body Worlds and other such exhibitions - Anatomy as Spectacle traces how these exhibitions taught their spectators to see their bodies as something requiring constant self-monitoring and management, constructing an embodied modern subject who is always responsible, productive, temperate, and focused on self-improvement.
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• Introduction : finding disabled veterans in history / David A. Gerber
• Philoctetes in historical context / Martha Edwards
• Heroes and misfits : the troubled social reintegration of disabled veterans in The best years of our lives / David A. Gerber
• Bitterness, rage, and redemption : Hollywood constructs the disabled Vietnam veteran / Martin F. Norden
• Disabled veterans and the state in early modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson
• "A sacred debt" : veterans and the state in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch
• From individual trauma to national policy : tracking the uses of Civil War veteran medical records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode
• Work-therapy and the disabled British soldier in Great Britain in the First World War : the cased of Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick
• "Empty sleeves and wooden pegs" : disabled Confederate veterans in image and reality / R.B. Rosenburg
• Fifty years of pain : the history of Austrian disabled veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks
• Disabled Russian War veterans : surviving the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn
• Nomads in blue : disabled veterans and alcohol at the national home / James Marten
• Will to work : disabled veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen
• Lieutenant John Counsell and the development of medical rehabilitation and disability policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay
• Post-modern American heroism : anti-war war heroes, survivor heroes, and the eclipse of traditional warrior values / David A. Gerber
• Afterword : a challenge to historians / Jonathan Shay.

Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present. This revised and enlarged edition, available for the first time in paperback, has been updated to reflect the new realities of war injuries in the 21st century, including PTSD. The book includes an afterword by noted Veterans Administration psychiatrist and MacArthur Award winner Jonathan Shay, a new preface, and an added essay on the changing nature of the American war hero.
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• 1. The Landscape of Disability
• 2. Killing Defective Babies
• 3. Demosthenes' Stutter: Overcoming Impairment
• 4. Croesus's Other Son: Deafness in a Culture of Communication
• 5. Degrees of Sight and Blindness
• Conclusions: Ability and Disability in Lysias 24.

Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient world are often skewed. These false assumptions in turn lend weight to modern-day discriminatory attitudes toward disability. Martha L. Rose considers a range of disabilities and the narratives surrounding them. She examines not only ancient literature, but also papyrus, skeletal material, inscriptions, sculpture, and painting, and draws upon modern work, including autobiographies of people with disabilities, medical research, and theoretical work in disability studies. Her study uncovers the realities of daily life for people with disabilities in ancient Greece and challenges the translation of the term adunatos (unable) as "disabled, " with all its modern associations.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction to the intellectual disability construct / Robert L. Schalock
• Chapter 2. At the dawn of civilization: intellectual disability in prehistory and Ancient Times (9000 BCE to 500 CE) / Ellis M. Craig
• Chapter 3. Poverty and the emergence of charity: intellectual disability in the Middle Ages (500 CE to 1500 CE) / Parnel Wickham
• Chapter 4. Idiocy and early modern law: intellectual disability in early modern times (1500 CE to 1799 CE) / Parnel Wickham
• Chapter 5. The development of systems of supports: intellectual disability in Middle Modern Times (1800 CE to 1899 CE) / Philip Ferguson
• Chapter 6. In search of a science: intellectual disability in Late Modern Times (1900 to 1930) / J. David Smith, Steven Noll, and Michael L. Wehmeyer
• Chapter 7. Isolation, enlargement, and economization: intellectual disability in Late Modern Times (1930 CE to 1950 CE) / Michael L. Wehmeyer, Steven Noll, and J. David Smith
• Chapter 8. The parent movement: Late Modern Times (1950 CE to 1980 CE) / Robert L. Schalock and Michael L. Wehmeyer
• Chapter 9. The self-advocacy movement: Late Modern Times (1980 CE to present) / Dianne Ferguson, Philip Ferguson, and Michael L. Wehmeyer.

Accessible, engaging, and filled with contributions by the country's most celebrated disability experts, this fascinating volume skillfully captures how intellectual disability has been understood from prehistoric times to present. Readers will discover how different societies have responded to people with disability throughout history, how life has changed for people with intellectual disability and their families over the centuries, and how key historical figures and events sparked social change and shaped our modern understanding of intellectual disability. Enhanced with remarkable images and illustrations, including exclusive photos from the editor's private collection of cultural artifacts, this informal history is a must-read for anyone devoted to improving the lives of people with intellectual disability. Top Disability Experts Explore: Early ideas about the causes of intellectual disability Evolution of the concept of intellectual disability The role of religion in the ancient world's understanding of disability Changing approaches to education and intervention The rise and fall of the institution system Depictions of intellectual disability in film, literature, and art State-sanctioned sterilization programs in the twentieth century The self-advocacy movement The emergence and impact of parent associations, support groups, and training programs How and why terminology changed throughout the years and more.
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• 1. Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem. Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity Christian Laes, C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
• 2. Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
• 3. Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose
• 4. Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux 4.1. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History Christian Laes
• 5. Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome Lisa Trentin
• 6. A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia Cornelia B. Horn
• 7. Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity Christian Laes
• 8. Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity Lutz Graumann
• 9. What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes
• 10. A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings Evelyn Samama
• 11. Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference Emma-Jayne Graham
• 12. Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines Alex Mitchell
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ABBREVIATIONS GENERAL INDEX INDEX LOCORUM.
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This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed.
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• Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of tables Introduction
• 1. Unfortunates: Disability 1900-39
• 2. Attitude: Disabled ex-servicemen after the First World War
• 3. Soul: Rehabilitation in the Second World War
• 4. Fit: The process of rehabilitation
• 5. Men: Masculinity and rehabilitation
• 6. Revealed: Women and rehabilitation
• 7. Nation: Rehabilitation and the state Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Through a series of thematic chapters, Julie Anderson explores the nature of injured and disabled bodies before, during and after the Second World War. Beginning at the end of the First World War and finishing with the publication of the Piercy Committee's report in 1956, the book examines medical practice, State support, societal attitudes and cultural meanings surrounding disabled war veterans and civilians. The book focuses on the embodied nature of the rehabilitative process, its gendered nature and the concentration on bodily fitness during the war. Using a series of case studies, this wide-ranging book seeks to understand the processes, methodology and practice of rehabilitation for those injured and disabled in war, and reflect on its adoption in post-war Britain. War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain will interest historians of medicine, war and disability studies.
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• Autobiographies of a disease
• One polio story
• In the family
• A polio school
• Stasis and kinesis
• Paralytic polio and moving pictures
• Handi-capitalism and cinema business
• The cast of Rear Window; or, cinema and akinesia
• Politics
• Polio and the great wars
• Remembering Roosevelt
• What we can learn, if we hurry.

It was not long ago that scientists proclaimed victory over polio, the dread disease of the 1950s. More recently polio resurfaced, not conquered at all, spreading across the countries of Africa. As we once again face the specter of this discase, along with other killers like AIDS and SARS, this powerful book reminds us of the personal cost, the cultural implications, and the historical significance of one of modern humanity's deadliest biological enemies. In Polio and Its Aftermath Marc Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence. Polio and Its Aftermath conveys the widespread panic that struck as the disease swept the world in the mid-fifties. It captures an atmosphere in which polio vied with the Cold War as the greatest cause of unrest in North America - and in which a strange and often debilitating uncertainty was one of the disease's salient but least treatable symptoms. Polio particularly afflicted the young, and Shell explores what this meant to families and communities. And he reveals why, in spite of the worldwide relief that greeted Jonas Salk's vaccine as a miracle of modern science, we have much more to fear from polio now than we know.
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In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell' s work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.
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• Contents: Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges, Joshua R. Eyler--
• Part 1 Reconsiderations: Disability and the suppression of historical identity: rediscovering the professional backgrounds of the blind residents of the Hopital des Quinze-Vingts, Mark P. O'Tool-- 'O sweete venym queynte!': pregnancy and the disabled female body in the Merchant's Tale, Tory Vandeventer Pearman-- Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, and prosthesis in 14th-century song, Julie Singer-- Representations of disability in the 13th-century Miracles de Saint Louis, Hannah Skoda-- The exemplary blindness of Francis of Assisi, Scott Wells-- Experience, authority, and the mediation of deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Edna Edith Sayers-- Protecting or restraining? Madness as a disability in late medieval France, Aleksandra Pfau-- Representations of disability:the medieval literary tradition of the Fisher King, Kisha G. Tracy-- 'Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': discourses of disability in Piers Plowman, Jennifer M. Gianfalla-- Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse and God's blessing, Beth Tovey-- Difference and disability: on the logic of naming in the Icelandic sagas, John P. Sexton.
• Part 2 Reverberations: Henryson's textual and narrative prosthesis onto Chaucer's corpus: Cresseid's leprosy and her schort conclusioun, Andrew Higl-- A medieval king 'disabled' by an early modern construct: a contextual examination of Richard III, Abigail Elizabeth Comber-- Aging women and disability in early modern Spanish literature, Encarnacion Juarez-Almendros-- Bibliography-- Index.
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What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.
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