This volume serves to engage scholars from many disciplines in our exploration of disability in the past, with particular emphasis on the bioarchaeological context.

1 Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology - An Introduction.- Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability.- 2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology.- 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model.- 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian context: The case of Shah Daula's chuhas.- Part II Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability.- 5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery.- 6 Kojo's Dis/ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an 18th-Century Jamaican Maroon Community.- 7 Rendered unfit: "Defective" children in the Erie County Poorhouse.- Part III Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches.- 8 The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain.- 9 Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairmentand Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis.- 10 Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages.- 11 Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851-1913.- Part IV Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past.- 12 Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection.- 13 Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee.- 14 Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in its Wider Context.