Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies

Front matter\nDedication\nContents\nList of illustrations\nList of contributors\nSeries editors’ foreword\nForeword\nIntroduction\nPart I: Attitudes\n	Restoration to usefulness: Victorian middle-class attitudes towards the healthcare of the working poor\n	Imperial lives: confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians\n	Disabling the author in mid-Victorian realist fiction: case studies of George Eliot and Harriet Martineau\nPart II: Interventions\n	Medicalising deafness in Victorian London: the Royal Ear Hospital, 1816–1900\n	Drunkenness, degeneration and disability in England\n	Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities\n	‘Happiness and usefulness increased’: consuming ability in the antebellum artificial limb market\nPart III: Legacies\n	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\n	The Panopticon: towards an intimate history of special schools for the blind\n	Allowed to be idle: perpetuating Victorian attitudes to deafness and employability in United Kingdom social policy\nIndex