Disability and the Victorians

Foreword - Karen Sayer
Introduction - Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton and Jaipreet Virdi

Part I: Attitudes
1 Restoration to usefulness: Victorian middle-class attitudes towards the healthcare of the working poor - Amy W Farnbach Pearson
2 Imperial lives - confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians - Esme Cleall
3 Disabling the author in Mid-Victorian realist fiction: case studies of George Eliot and Harriet Martineau - Deborah M Fratz

Part II: Interventions
4 Medicalising deafness in Victorian London: the Royal Ear Hospital, 1816-1916 - Jaipreet Virdi
5 Drunkenness, degeneration, and disability in England - Joanne Woiak
6 Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities - Paula Hellal and Marjorie Lorch
7 'Happiness and usefulness increased": Consuming ability in the antebellum artificial limb market - Caroline Lieffers

Part III: Legacies
8 The disabled child in an industrial metropolis: Glasgow's children's hospital, Scottish convalescent homes 'in the country', and east park home for infirm children - Iain Hutchison
9 The panopticon: Towards an intimate history of special schools for the blind - Fred Reid
10 Allowed to be idle: Perpetuating Victorian attitudes to deafness and employability in United Kingdom social policy - Martin Atherton
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• História social e cultural
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• História da medicina

Alcoholism; Blind; Care; Deaf; Disability; Education; Experience; History; Policy; Rehabilitation