DISABLED CHILDREN: CONTESTED CARING,
18501979
STUDIES FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Series Editors:David Cantor
Keir Waddington
TITLES IN THIS SERIES
1 Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century
David Cantor, Christian Bonah and Matthias Drries (eds)
2 Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health
Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher (eds)
3 Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 18002000
J. T. H. Connor and Stephan Curtis (eds)
4 A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 18001950
Ian Miller
5 War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 17931830
Catherine Kelly
6 Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder
Heather R. Beatty
7 Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 19451970
Ali Haggett
DISABLED CHILDREN: CONTESTED CARING,
18501979
EDITED BY
Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
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Disabled children: contested caring, 18501979. (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)
1. Children with disabilities Care History 19th century. 2. Children with disabilities Care History 20th century. 3. Children with disabilities Services for History 19th century. 4. Children with disabilities Services for History 20th century.
I. Series II. Borsay, Anne. III. Dale, Pamela, 1975
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CONTENTS
Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
Pat Starkey
Amy Rebok Rosenthal
Steven Thompson
Mike Mantin
Lee-Ann Monk and Corinne Manning
Anne Borsay
Staffan Frhammar and Marie C. Nelson
Pamela Dale
Jos Martnez-Prez, Mara Isabel Porras, Mara Jos Bguena and Rosa Ballester
Sue Wheatcroft
Angela Turner
Matthew Smith
This volume began as a conference, entitled Children, Disability and Community Care from 1850 to the Present Day, held at Sketty Hall, Swansea, in October 2007. The event was co-organized by Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale with support from Swansea University School of Health Science. The University of Exeter Centre for Medical History generously supported the conference as part of a 20038 Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled Health, Heredity and the Environment, 18502000. We would like to thank all our Swansea and Exeter colleagues, especially Professors Joseph Melling and Mark Jackson, for their assistance. Thanks are also due to the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) who did much of the publicity work and Claire Keyte (Centre Co-ordinator) who handled the administration. The conference presentations and discussions helped shape this volume at all stages of production and we are indebted to all the delegates for their thoughtful contributions. We would also like to thank David Cantor (SSHM Series Editor) and staff at Pickering and Chatto for all their assistance with the production of the volume.
Mara Jos Bguena, MD and PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the Institute of History of Medicine and Science Lpez Piero, University of Valencia. Her research focuses on the history of infectious diseases, public health and Valencian medicine.
Rosa Ballester, MD and PhD, is Professor of History of Science at the Miguel Hernndez University in Alicante (Spain). She has done extensive research on the social history of paediatrics, public health and the history of poliomyelitis.
Anne Borsay is Professor of Healthcare and Medical Humanities in the College of Human and Health Sciences at Swansea University. She is currently writing a cultural history of disability in Britain between 1500 and 2000 which examines how disabled people are represented in literature and the visual arts.
Pamela Dale is an Honorary Research Fellow based in the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter. She has published many journal and book articles exploring public health and learning disability topics.
Staff an Frhammar is Professor of History at The History Unit/Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (ISAK), Linkping University, Linkping, Sweden. He is a pioneer in the study of disability history in the Swedish context.
Corinne Manning is a Research Fellow at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Her work on the Kew Cottages History project has led to numerous publications and Corinne has also written about aspects of Aboriginal culture and Australian peacekeepers.
Mike Mantin is currently undertaking a PhD studentship at Swansea University on disability history in Wales. His thesis will focus on the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea.
Lee-Ann Monk is an Honorary Research Associate in the History Programme at La Trobe University, Australia. In 2005, she won an Australian Research Council (ARC) Post-doctoral Fellowship (Industry) to research the history of Kew Cottages, Australias first purpose-built institution for people with learning disabilities. Lee-Ann is currently completing a book on the history of the Cottages.
Marie Clark Nelson is Professor of Social History at The History Unit/Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (ISAK), Linkping University, Linkping, Sweden. Although her dissertation dealt with hunger crises in the Swedish context, her later work has dealt with the development of health legislation and the ways in which societies have responded to epidemics of infectious diseases.
Jos Martnez-Prez, MD and PhD in Medicine, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in the History of Science Unit at the Faculty of Medicine where he is currently Dean. He has published many papers on the relationship between medicine and social exclusion, focusing on mental illness, hygiene and occupational safety. He is currently undertaking research on the history of disability in Spain.
