Book of Donmon Teith

This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing stat

Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. At t

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available un

Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did workin