Michael Rembis

Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum

The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few...

Disability

A Reference Handbook

This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disa...

Defining Deviance

Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960

Drawing on the case files of the State Training school of Geneva, Illinois, the author presents a history of delinquent girls in the late nineteenth a...