Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history where disabled people live not just as patients or cure-seekers, but rather as people living differently in the world--and it is also a history that helps define the fundamental concepts of identity, community, citizenship, and normality.The Oxford Handbook of Disability History is the first volume of its kind to represent this history and its global scale, from ancient Greece to British West Africa. The twenty-seven articles, written by thirty experts from across the field, capture the diversity and liveliness of this emerging scholarship. Whether discussing disability in modern Chinese cinema or on the American antebellum stage, this collection provides new and valuable insights into the rich and varied lives of disabled people across time and place.

AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroductionMichael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, and Kim E. NielsenPart I. CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS1. The Perils and Promises of Disability BiographyKim E. Nielsen2. Disability History and Greco-Roman AntiquityC.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose3. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle AgesIrina Metzler4. Disability in the Pre-modern Arab WorldSara Scalenghe5. Disability and the History of EugenicsMichael Rembis6. Social History of Medicine and Disability HistoryCatherine J. Kudlick7. Material Culture, Technology, and the Body in Disability HistoryKatherine Ott8. Designing Objects and Spaces: A Modern Disability HistoryBess Williamson9. Documents, Ethics, and the Disability HistorianPenny Richards and Susan BurchPart II. WORK10. Disability and Work during the Industrial Revolution in BritainDaniel Blackie11. Disability and Work in South Asia and the United KingdomJane Buckingham12. Disability and Work in British West AfricaJeff Grischow13. Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United StatesPaul Lawrie14. Organized Labor and Disability in Post-World War II United StatesAudra JenningsPart III. INSTITUTIONS15. Deaf-blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century EuropePieter Vierestraete and Ylva S?derfeldt16. Disability and Madness in Colonial Asylum Records in Australia and New ZealandCatharine Coleborne17. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia and New ZealandAngela McCarthy18. Institutions for People with Disabilities in North AmericaSteven NollPart IV. REPRESENTATIONS19. Picturing Disability in Eighteenth-Century EnglandDavid M. Turner20. Disability, Race, and Gender on the United States Antebellum StageJenifer L. Barclay21. Polio and Disability in Cold War HungaryDora Vargha22. Monstrous Births, Birth Defects, Unusual Anatomy, and Disability in Europe and North AmericaLeslie J. Reagan23. Disability in Modern Chinese CinemaSteven L. RiepPart V. MOVEMENTS AND IDENTITIES24. Transnational Interconnections in Nineteenth Century Western Deaf CommunitiesJoseph J. Murray25. The Disability Rights Movement in the United StatesLindsey Patterson26. The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United StatesRegina Kunzel27. Disabled Veterans and the Wounds of WarDavid A. GerberIndex