part, I Histories of disabilities across time and cultures / Roy Hanes -- chapter Introduction / Roy Hanes -- chapter 1 Reason, value and persons: The construction of intellectual disability in western thought from antiquity to the romantic age / Tim Stainton -- chapter 2 The courage of subordination: Women and intellectual disability in the ancient Greek world / M. Lynn Rose -- chapter 3 Jane Austen and me: Tales from the couch / Diane Driedger -- chapter 4 Developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman period of Turkish history from 1876 to 1909 / Mualla Erkilic -- chapter 5 A short history of disability in Italy / Luigi Croce Federica Di Cosimo Marco Lombardi -- chapter 6 A short history of disability aspects from Israel / Joav Merrick Ariel Tenenbaum Mohammed Morad Eli Carmeli -- part, II Histories of national disability policies, programs and services -- chapter 7 The role of international institutions in the process of categorization of ‘disabled people’ (1930s–1975) / Gildas Bregain -- chapter 8 Disabilities and disability services in Nigeria: Past, present and future / Paul M. Ajuwon -- chapter 9 A short history of approaches to disability in the Netherlands / Luc Brants Paul van Trigt Alice Schippers -- chapter 10 A journey of change – history of disability in Hong Kong 1841–2014 / Karen K.H. Ngai Simon W.K. Wu Joanna L.P. Chung -- chapter 11 Historical development of disability services in Singapore: Enabling persons with disabilities / Kenneth K. Poon Meng Ee Wong -- chapter 12 Swedish disability policies: Ideas, values and practices in a historical perspective / Rafael Lindqvist -- chapter 13 One difference is enough: Towards a history of disability in the Belgian-Congo, 1908–1960 / Pieter Verstraete Evelyne Verhaegen Marc Depaepe -- part, III Histories of education and training -- Introduction to part III: Histories of education and training / Nancy E. Hansen -- chapter 14 From their own hands: Collecting oral testimony in signing communities / Martin Atherton -- chapter 15 The history of access to education of people with visual impairments in Great Britain from 1656 to 1999 / Archie W.N. Roy Gisela Dimigen -- chapter 16 Out of sight, out of mind: Blind asylums and missions in Scotland / Hazel McFarlane -- chapter 17 Tracing disability history in the midst of cultural absence: An investigation into the Belfast association for the Employment of the industrious blind / Myrtle Hill Nancy Hansen -- chapter 18 Australian histories of intellectual disabilities 1 / Dave Earl -- chapter 19 History and national policy documents on special education in Sweden / Kim Wickman Margaretha Kristoffersson -- chapter 20 The Italian path to school and social inclusion: Problems, strengths and perspectives / Teresa Maria Sgaramella Laura Nota Lea Ferrari Salvatore Soresi Aamir Khan -- chapter 21 Education of people with intellectual disabilities and hearing impairments in Spain: A historical approach / Climent Giné Carles Llombart Anna Balcells Joana Mas -- chapter 22 The case of the “dull” pupil in the Norwegian folk school 1892–1930 / Bodil Ravneberg -- part, IV Spectacle, science, services and civil rights / Ivan Brown -- chapter 23 The freak-show act: Science and spectacle in the nineteenth century / Andrea Zittlau -- chapter 24 Three illusions in clinical photographs of the feeble-minded during the eugenics era / Martin A. Elks -- chapter 25 When is life unworthy of living? Lessons from the systematic killing of children with disabilities in Nazi Germany / Ivan Brown -- chapter 26 The genesis of societies for crippled children in Canada and their American roots / Roy Hanes -- chapter 27 Breaking the rules: Summer camping experiences and the lives of Ontario children growing up with polio in the 1940s and 1950s / Karen Yoshida Susan Ferguson Fady Shanouda -- chapter 28 Changing America's consciousness: A brief history of the independent living civil rights movement in the United States / Steven E. Brown.

"The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that the history of disability cuts across racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, gender and class divides, highlighting the commonalities and differences between the experiences of disabled persons in global historical context. The book is arranged in four parts, covering histories of disabilities across various time periods and cultures, histories of national disability policies, programs and services, histories of education and training and the ways in which disabled people have been seen and treated in the last few decades. Within this, the twenty-eight chapters discuss topics such as developments in disability issues during the late Ottoman period, the history of disability in Belgian Congo in the early twentieth century, blind asylums in nineteenth-century Scotland and the systematic killing of disabled children in Nazi Germany.Illustrated with images and tables and providing an overview of how various countries, cultures and societies have addressed disability over time, this comprehensive volume offers a global perspective on this rapidly growing field and is a valuable resource for scholars of disability studies and histories of disabilities."--Provided by publisher.