David M Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1125832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5400-1864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Redefining Family Relationships
The Industrial Revolution traditionally has been seen in Disability Studies as marking a decisive shift in the lives of disabled people. It is argued that the rise of mechanisation, time discipline and standardisation made the industrial workplace a hostile environment for people with non-standard bodies. According to this view, increasing demands to work outside the home also meant that families were less capable of caring for older and disabled…
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850
This article examines disabled people’s political activism in Britain before the emergence of the modern disability rights movement (DRM). Focusing on the campaign for shorter factory working hours in the 1830s and 1840s, it highlights the centrality of so-called ‘factory cripples’ to the reformist cause, both figuratively and as witnesses to the consequences of industrial labour. Drawing on a wide range of sources – from accounts of campaign spe…
Tuberculosis and disabled identity in nineteenth century literature
No right to be idle
It has long been argued that the advent of industrial capitalism in the western world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a significant detrimental impact on the employment pros
Identity and national identity
This article reviews the history of international mobility of students from China to other countries over the century and a half from 1870 to the present day. Different motivations, goals, courses, and knowledge are considered, together with how the purposes of individuals have matched national policy. Implications for the future development in a globalized context are briefly considered
Impaired Children in Eighteenth-century England
People in the early modern period had long been fascinated by ‘monstrous births’ as portents, prodigies and scientific marvels, but during the eighteenth century attention began to turn to the ‘problem’ of children growing up with physical or sensory impairments. During the second half of the century, against the backdrop of increasing professional interest in child health, the sentimentalisation of childhood and growing concerns about the costs …
Disability in the Ottoman Arab world, 1500–1800
In spite of the advances in Disability Studies and history, there remain significant gaps in our knowledge of disability in pre-industrial societies and outside Europe and North America. The latter
African American slavery and disability
The horrors of slavery, represented viscerally in the punishment scenes in Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning film adaptation of Solomon Northup’s autobiography Twelve Years a Slave, wrought a heavy phy...
Disability and Crime in Eighteenth-Century England
Despite recent interest in disability history, the period before 1800 remains relatively neglected by historians. This article uses criminal court records, an under-exploited source for historians of disability, in order to examine the meanings of impairment in eighteenth-century London. It discusses disabled people as perpetrators and victims of crime, and examines representations of impairment in their testimonies. Meanings of impairment were n…
Disability History
Ten years ago Douglas Baynton remarked that ‘Disability is everywhere in History, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent from the histories we write’.1 Baynton’s comments were part of a call for a ‘new disability history’ which would seek to analyse critically the ways in which past societies have given meaning to impairment and to give voice to the experiences of disabled people customarily marginalized or neglected in conventio…
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century
In this thought-provoking and enjoyable study, Karen Harvey provides a reappraisal of changing gender identities and theories of sexual difference, using a variety of eighteenth-century erotic texts and images. ‘Erotica’, Harvey argues, emerged as a distinct genre of writing in Georgian England. Although sharing with pornography an interest with sex, erotica ‘depicted sex, bodies and desire through illusions of concealment and distance’ (p. 20). …
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: approaching anomalous bodies / David M. Turner -- Pt. I. Discipline and deformity: the medical and moral world of monstrosity -- 1. Representing physical difference: the materiality of the monstrous / Kevin Stagg -- 2. 'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it': the rhetoric of smallpox at the Restoration / David E. Shuttleton -- 3. Plague spots / Hal Gladfelder -- 4. 'Wonderful …
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Elizabeth A. Foyster, Manhood in early modern England
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Identity and national identity
This article reviews the history of international mobility of students from China to other countries over the century and a half from 1870 to the present day. Different motivations, goals, courses, and knowledge are considered, together with how the purposes of individuals have matched national policy. Implications for the future development in a globalized context are briefly considered
No right to be idle
It has long been argued that the advent of industrial capitalism in the western world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a significant detrimental impact on the employment pros
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850
This article examines disabled people’s political activism in Britain before the emergence of the modern disability rights movement (DRM). Focusing on the campaign for shorter factory working hours in the 1830s and 1840s, it highlights the centrality of so-called ‘factory cripples’ to the reformist cause, both figuratively and as witnesses to the consequences of industrial labour. Drawing on a wide range of sources – from accounts of campaign spe…
Elizabeth A. Foyster, Manhood in early modern England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: approaching anomalous bodies / David M. Turner -- Pt. I. Discipline and deformity: the medical and moral world of monstrosity -- 1. Representing physical difference: the materiality of the monstrous / Kevin Stagg -- 2. 'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it': the rhetoric of smallpox at the Restoration / David E. Shuttleton -- 3. Plague spots / Hal Gladfelder -- 4. 'Wonderful …
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century
In this thought-provoking and enjoyable study, Karen Harvey provides a reappraisal of changing gender identities and theories of sexual difference, using a variety of eighteenth-century erotic texts and images. ‘Erotica’, Harvey argues, emerged as a distinct genre of writing in Georgian England. Although sharing with pornography an interest with sex, erotica ‘depicted sex, bodies and desire through illusions of concealment and distance’ (p. 20). …
Disability History
Ten years ago Douglas Baynton remarked that ‘Disability is everywhere in History, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent from the histories we write’.1 Baynton’s comments were part of a call for a ‘new disability history’ which would seek to analyse critically the ways in which past societies have given meaning to impairment and to give voice to the experiences of disabled people customarily marginalized or neglected in conventio…
Disability and Crime in Eighteenth-Century England
Despite recent interest in disability history, the period before 1800 remains relatively neglected by historians. This article uses criminal court records, an under-exploited source for historians of disability, in order to examine the meanings of impairment in eighteenth-century London. It discusses disabled people as perpetrators and victims of crime, and examines representations of impairment in their testimonies. Meanings of impairment were n…
African American slavery and disability
The horrors of slavery, represented viscerally in the punishment scenes in Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning film adaptation of Solomon Northup’s autobiography Twelve Years a Slave, wrought a heavy phy...
Disability in the Ottoman Arab world, 1500–1800
In spite of the advances in Disability Studies and history, there remain significant gaps in our knowledge of disability in pre-industrial societies and outside Europe and North America. The latter
Impaired Children in Eighteenth-century England
People in the early modern period had long been fascinated by ‘monstrous births’ as portents, prodigies and scientific marvels, but during the eighteenth century attention began to turn to the ‘problem’ of children growing up with physical or sensory impairments. During the second half of the century, against the backdrop of increasing professional interest in child health, the sentimentalisation of childhood and growing concerns about the costs …
No right to be idle
It has long been argued that the advent of industrial capitalism in the western world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a significant detrimental impact on the employment pros
Identity and national identity
This article reviews the history of international mobility of students from China to other countries over the century and a half from 1870 to the present day. Different motivations, goals, courses, and knowledge are considered, together with how the purposes of individuals have matched national policy. Implications for the future development in a globalized context are briefly considered
Tuberculosis and disabled identity in nineteenth century literature
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850
This article examines disabled people’s political activism in Britain before the emergence of the modern disability rights movement (DRM). Focusing on the campaign for shorter factory working hours in the 1830s and 1840s, it highlights the centrality of so-called ‘factory cripples’ to the reformist cause, both figuratively and as witnesses to the consequences of industrial labour. Drawing on a wide range of sources – from accounts of campaign spe…
Redefining Family Relationships
The Industrial Revolution traditionally has been seen in Disability Studies as marking a decisive shift in the lives of disabled people. It is argued that the rise of mechanisation, time discipline and standardisation made the industrial workplace a hostile environment for people with non-standard bodies. According to this view, increasing demands to work outside the home also meant that families were less capable of caring for older and disabled…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · History (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works)