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Mare Nostrum Group
Ability Machines
What Video Games Mean for Disability
Sky LaRell Anderson
Digital Game Studies
July 2024 232pp 18 b&w illus.
9780253070036 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780253070029 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sky LaRell Anderson shows us how video games can help us imagine what our abilities mean and how they engage us physically, behaviorally, and cognitively to envision our agency beyond limitations. Featuring a comparative analysis of key video game titles, it tackles larger questions of ability and how our bodies relate to interactive media.
Constructing Disability after the Great War
Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era
Evan P. Sullivan
Disability Histories
October 2024 192pp 15 b&w photos.
9780252088247 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9780252046162
£99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
As Americans determined the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, Sullivan investigates the rich lives of blind soldiers and veterans in a mix of inspirational stories. They reveal how veterans and soldiers confronted barriers and managed whilst continually exposed to the public’s scrutiny of their service.
9781978841451
9781978841468
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Edited by Kelly Fagan Robinson, Mark T. Carew & Nora Ellen Groce
November 2024 190pp 8 color and 3 b&w images
£23.99/ $27.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning, living and in the specific context of their Higher Education Institutions and in research.
Becoming an Expert Caregiver
How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community
Cara A. Chiaraluce
Carework in a Changing World
December 2024 170pp 1 table
9781978831902 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978831919 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book features the voices of 50 primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which lay women become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children.
9781479830831
How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
Edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp
February 2025 400pp 39 b&w and 17 color images
9781479830855
£25.99/ $30.00 PB
£80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. The book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability vulnerability, the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production.
Menace to the Future
A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
Theorizing how what they call “carceral eugenics” informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted.
Remapping an Ableist World
Disability and Oppression under
Capitalism
Vera Chouinard
October 2024 200pp
9781487524876
£22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487507183 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression. Reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.
The Agency of Access
Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique
Amanda Cachia
December 2024 323pp
9781439926239
£16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781439926222 £85.00/ $94.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how access can be employed as a methodology for curating art exhibitions using a multi-sensorial approach. Showcasing artwork by contemporary disabled artists, Cachia inscribes contemporary disability art in the broad canon of contemporary art, where the artistic past is regarded differently.
Unmothering Autism
Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care
Patty Douglas
Disability Culture and Politics
October 2024 252pp
9780774869720 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Douglas theorizes an “ethics of disruption,” reorienting us to autism and autistic people as valuable and fundamentally human. It centres the previously marginalized perspectives of mothers and autistic individuals to affirm their knowledge of living well together in, and through, difference.
Sites of Conscience
Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
Edited by Elisabeth Punzi & Linda Steele
Disability Culture and Politics
November 2024 360pp 16 b&w photos
9780774869331 £38.00/ $41.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Charts the importance of public engagement with histories, memories, and lived experiences of institutions in forging new directions in social justice with and for disabled people and people experiencing mental distress, in a context where deinstitutionalization has failed to fully recognise, redress, and repair the ongoing impacts of institutions.
Unmentionable Madness
Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting patient. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that they believed might work. Hancock looks through the lens of feminist disability to examine the popular but ethically suspect treatment and its consequences.
Wounded for Life
Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War
Robert D. Hicks
September 2024 516pp 27 b&w photos
9780253070760 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the trauma of the battlefield and hospital and the construction of a postwar identity in relation to that trauma. This engaging book is equal parts Civil War history, disability and gender history, and the history of the body that discloses the impact of war on a wounded warrior
A Theology of Health
Wholeness and Human Flourishing
Tyler J. VanderWeele
September 2024 386pp
9780268208332 £38.00/ $42.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
VanderWeele argues that health can be understood as wholeness as intended by God and that sin—whether individual wrongdoing, societal injustice, or the fallenness of creation—causes ill health. This book is an essential theological exploration that seeks to promote health, healing, and flourishing of the whole person.
Blood Loss
A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art
Keiko Lane
September 2024 312pp
9781478030799 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026556 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together the love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival, against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Luminous and powerfully moving, Blood Loss explores survival after those we love have died.
Feeling Machines
Japanese
Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-ThanHuman Care
Shawn Bender
November 2024 296pp
9781503641150 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640191 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-than-human care.
Birth in Times of Despair
Reproductive Violence on the USMexico Border
Carina Heckert
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
Heckert traces women’s emotional experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period in the midst of a series of longstanding and ongoing crises in the US-Mexico border region. Expands our understanding of how obstetric violence is enhanced by the structural violence of the state.
Disorder and Diagnosis
Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia
Laura Frances Goffman
October 2024 264pp
9781503640818 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638174 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a history of public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents, Goffman demonstrates how the Gulf and its Arabian hinterland served as a buffer zone between "diseased" India and white Europe.
Gluten Free for Life
Celiac Disease, Medical
Recognition, and the Food Industry
Emily K. Abel
January 2025 224pp
9781479834938 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479834914 £80.00/ $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Abel delves into the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of celiac disease, and sheds light on the challenges faced by affected individuals. Abel cautions against viewing a medical cure as the sole solution for celiac disease. Instead, she advocates for a comprehensive approach that addresses the socioeconomic factors impacting adherence to the gluten-free diet.
In the Time of Ebola
Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone
Jonah Lipton
November 2024 162pp 5 b&w halftones
9781501778100 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778094 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. In the Time of Ebola questions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing, researching, and responding to emergencies that make the home, the family, and "ordinary life" their starting point.
On Addiction
Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory
Darin Weinberg
September 2024 208pp
9781478030829 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026587 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainstream addiction science either sees addiction as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control, or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/ subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction.
Seized by Uncertainty
The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19
Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore & Brianna Wolfe
November 2024 504pp 26 diagrams, 30 tables
9780228022893 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, the COVID-19 virus was an uncertain threat. This book studies the pandemic response through the contexts in which it emerged, exposing uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that predated the threat.
Malaria on the Move
Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015
Provides a historical analysis of malaria control and eradication programs in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late nineteenth century to 2015. Manamere shows how migration and travel have spread the disease and impeded control efforts, demonstrating that biological and ecological landscapes are not exclusive factors in the spread of disease.
Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and our experience with epidemics today. Novel therapies developed for syphilis and AIDS became renowned in the medical field and the broader public sphere as exemplars of biomedical innovations.
The Ethics of Precision Medicine
The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare
Paul Scherz
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
October 2024 216pp 9780268209056 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease. The book provides a new perspective on the problems of contemporary healthcare, proposing practical steps that individuals and institutions can take to ensure that the advanced technologies of precision medicine can be used to promote human flourishing.
Virus Research in Twentieth-Century
Uganda
Between Local and Global Julia
Ross Cummiskey
Perspectives on Global Health
November 2024 272pp 14 b&w illus.
9780821425695 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780821425701 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936 and shows how their story transforms our understanding of the nature of local and international expertise and the evolution of global health research over the course of the twentieth century.
Breaking Canadians
Health Care, Advocacy, and
the
Toll of COVID-19
Edited by Nili Kaplan-Myrth
March 2024 320pp 8 b&w figures
9781487548124 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Brings together health care experts, community advocates, and average citizens from across Canada to offer a unique analysis of the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. An important collection of stories, insights, cautionary tales, and calls for action, Breaking Canadians is also a harbinger of what is to come if we do not learn.
Crip Spacetime
Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
Margaret Price
April 2024 240pp 4 illus.
9781478030379 £20.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026136 £85.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, Price boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care.
Womanist Bioethics
Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Develops the first specifically womanist form of bioethics, focused on the diverse vulnerabilities and multiple oppressions that women of color face. Offers a new approach to bioethics that is meant as a corrective to mainstream bioethics’ privileging of white male experiences, and outlines ways in which the community can better respond to the health needs of Black women.
Breathless
Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Andrew McDowell
South Asia in Motion
April 2024 272pp
9781503638778 £21.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637955 £91.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement with a village in North India and its TB epidemic, Andrew McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("ex-untouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them. Breathless traces the multivalent relations that breath engenders between people, environments, social worlds, and microbes.
Disability Worlds
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
April 2024 288pp 11 illus.
9781478030409 £21.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026181 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ginsburg and Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. Ginsburg and Rapp’s conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures.
