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Cultural Studies

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Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

War on Autism

On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

By Anne McGuire
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges the discourses of autism awareness campaigns for the “logic of violence” they often conceal

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Enlarged and Revised Edition

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Disability Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection

The Biopolitics of Disability

Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

By David T. Mitchell
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

The Measure of Manliness

Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

Narrative Prosthesis

Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

By David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function

The End of Normal

Identity in a Biocultural Era

By Lennard Davis
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Provocative essays that challenge notions of the “normal” in the new century

Mad at School

Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

By Margaret Price
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Composition
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Viral Mothers

Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS

By Bernice L. Hausman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises

Signifying Bodies

Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

By G. Thomas Couser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

The Birth of Postpsychiatry

By Bradley Lewis
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge

Disability Aesthetics

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments

Bodies in Commotion

Disability and Performance

By Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The first collection to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity

Disability Theory

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

Backlash Against the ADA

Reinterpreting Disability Rights

Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger
Subjects: Disability Studies, Law, Political Science, American Politics, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disability rights lawyers, activists, and scholars weigh in on the hot-potato issue of the last decade

Points of Contact

Disability, Art, and Culture

Edited by Susan Crutchfield & Marcy Joy Epstein
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A richly diverse collection of essays, memoir, poetry and photography on aspects of disability and its representation in art

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