A review by fjette
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A good survey of disability history! It balanced broad trends with specific examples and shed light on patterns of thought/concepts of disability and how it has shifted and changed over the years. I would’ve liked it to be longer, honestly. I also found the passive tone a bit bizarre at times - disability came to be defined by whether/how much people could labor, but the book neglects to mention who/how these definitions were championed. Ableism is always ascribed to society at large or occasionally a policy or large company. Some of the trends of ableism were treated as inevitable when there were contemporary drivers behind them