Steven Noll
Biographic Data
| ID | 621322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Noll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Noll |
| SIGNATURE | NOLL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5984-0440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Planting Ethics: The Seed Framework for Responsible AI in Agricultural Systems
Ethical Omnivorism
Eating is an ethical act. When eaters make decisions concerning what to eat, they make choices that can have serious consequences beyond the plate. Food ethics is the interdisciplinary study of how food and agricultural practices impact human, animal, and environmental wellbeing (Kaplan 2012; Thompson 2023). As the field of food ethics makes clear, there are many ways eaters answer the question “what should I eat?” that are driven by deeply held …
Environmental Ethics Down on the Farm: Hargrove’s Weak Anthropocentrism and the “Agricultural Blindspot”
Eugene Hargrove’s impact on the field of environmental philosophy is hard to adequately convey. His service as an activist, educator, and the founder of the journal Environmental Ethics created the context in which the field thrived. His legacy also provides a strong foundation for environmental ethics and activism of the future. Today, environmental philosophy is expanding to include human-dominated environments, once thought to fall outside of …
A Framework for Thawing Value Conflicts in the GMO Debate
This chapter explores the ethical dimensions of one of the most contentious applications of agricultural biotechnology: the genetic modification of food products. While the development of genetically modified breeds and seeds has many advantages, the public has consistently expressed worries concerning the adoption of genetically modified organisms. The first section of this chapter uses the AquAdvantage salmon debate in the United States to high…
Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
For over a century and a half, academics, public policy experts, and government bureaucrats have examined the causes and consequences of America's rural poverty “problem.” Often, they found the root cause of the issue in the people themselves—those isolated, white mountain folk viewed as shiftless, lazy, criminally inclined, intellectually stunted, and genetically inferior. This perception was mirrored through popular culture in books like Erskin…
Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing
David Kaplan. Food Philosophy: An Introduction
Climate Change and Conservation Biology as it Relates to Urban Environments
Climate change continues to have recognizable impacts across the globe, as weather patterns shift and impacts accumulate and intensify. In this wider context, urban areas face significant challenges as they attempt to mitigate dynamic changes at the local level — changes such as those caused by intensifying weather events, the disruption of critical supplies, and the deterioration of local ecosystems. One field that could help urban areas address…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City
Whose Justice is it Anyway? Mitigating the Tensions Between Food Security and Food Sovereignty
Deborah Blythe Doroshow, Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children
In mid-twentieth-century America, a group of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other human welfare professionals both defined a new category of difficult children and developed an innovative methodology for treating them. Finding these children unable to conform to the norms of family or community or be helped by existing institutional solutions such as mental hospitals, homes for the ‘feeble-minded’ or juvenile training schools an…
Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic
As the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic ravaged gay America in the early to mid-1980s, health professionals, the public, and the gay community searched for the cause of the scourge. The 1987 publication of And the Band Played On, written by the gay journalist Randy Shilts, seemed to end that discussion by placing the blame squarely on Gaétan Dugas, a French Canadian airline steward, known as Patient Zero. Richard A. McKay maint…
Nonhuman Climate Refugees: The Role that Urban Communities Should Play in Ensuring Ecological Resilience
The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968 by Chanelle N. Rose
History Lessons: What Urban Environmental Ethics Can Learn from Nineteenth Century Cities
Liberalism and the Two Directions of the Local Food Movement
From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since 1945
Michael A. Rembis. Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890–1960
One of the hallmarks of modernity has been the obsessive need to classify and label entities according to scientific criteria. Starting in the late nineteenth century, medical doctors, psychologists, educators, and reformers began a systematic program to determine the causes of and treatment for aberrant, often sexually charged, behavior associated with young urban females. Less than a conspiracy but more than simply a series of random actions, t…
Broiler Chickens and a Critique of the Epistemic Foundations of Animal Modification
Kelly Oliver, Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration
Book Review| September 01 2010 Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration Edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009 xii + 286 pp., $69.95 (cloth) Steven Noll Steven Noll Search for other works…
Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control, and Citizenship
In the past 50 years, a revolution has taken place in the care of those persons categorized as having learning difficulties, mental handicaps, mental retardation or developmental disabilities. Focusing on events in the United Kingdom, the individual pieces in Community Care in Perspective examines these changes from a variety of angles. They analyse both the promise and the reality of the movement towards community placement and examine the often…
The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930 (review)
Reviewed by: The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930 Steven Noll Gordon Phillips . The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. x + 438 pp. Tables. $109.95 (0-7546-5012-X). In the past fifteen years, the field of disability history has grown to be an important topic within the historical discipline. Many monographs and edited volumes have added to both t…
Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom
In the past ten years there has been a major change in the scholarly examination of the field of disability history. This is especially true with works that examine the history of mental illness and mental disability. A field previously marked by contentious debate and highly charged polemical writing has been transformed by a series of books and monographs that seem less interested in grand theory and sweeping generalisations than in deeply exam…
From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food
Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the 'feeble-minded' in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions …
Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control, and Citizenship
In the past 50 years, a revolution has taken place in the care of those persons categorized as having learning difficulties, mental handicaps, mental retardation or developmental disabilities. Focusing on events in the United Kingdom, the individual pieces in Community Care in Perspective examines these changes from a variety of angles. They analyse both the promise and the reality of the movement towards community placement and examine the often…
Liberalism and the Two Directions of the Local Food Movement
A History of Childhood and Disability
Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on children considered exceptional and how services have evolved in response to their diverse needs. The authors synthesise the voices of exceptional children, providing a historical perspective of the professional and the client
"The Public Face of Southern Institutions for the "Feeble-Minded
The article examines the history of Southern institutions and how these facilities are presently facing up to that past. Established both to care for and to control a population of individuals labeled as feeble-minded and deviant, these facilities provided little support and help for patients and quickly devolved into over-crowded, under-funded operations. With the de-institutionalization revolution of the late twentieth century, they ceased to b…
Broiler Chickens and a Critique of the Epistemic Foundations of Animal Modification
Southern Strategies for Handling the Black Feeble-minded: From Social Control to Profound Indifference
In 1927, the biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of the Commonwealth of Kentucky warned that “the feeble-minded of the colored race present a greater menace than do the white....We do desire to point out the utter lack of any provision for colored feeble-minded.” In spite of this admonition, southern states took little notice of their black feebleminded population. Nineteen years after the Kentucky report, the South Ca…
Southern Strategies for Handling the Black Feeble-minded: From Social Control to Profound Indifference
In 1927, the biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of the Commonwealth of Kentucky warned that “the feeble-minded of the colored race present a greater menace than do the white....We do desire to point out the utter lack of any provision for colored feeble-minded.” In spite of this admonition, southern states took little notice of their black feebleminded population. Nineteen years after the Kentucky report, the South Ca…
Women and Madness: The Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-Century France. Yannick Ripa , Catherine du Peloux Menagé
The Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and Black
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South
Journal Article Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South Get access Larson Edward J., Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1995. ix, 251 pp. $35.00. Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 398–400, https://doi.org/10.2307/845801 Pu…
Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
Journal Article Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900–1940. By Steven Noll. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2220-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4531-0.) Get access Peter Tyor Peter Tyor Illinois Hospital and Health Systems Association, Naperville, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Journal Article Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era. By Peter McCandless. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 405 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-80782251-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4558-2.) Get access Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
A History of Childhood and Disability
Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on children considered exceptional and how services have evolved in response to their diverse needs. The authors synthesise the voices of exceptional children, providing a historical perspective of the professional and the client
Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the 'feeble-minded' in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions …
Insane Sisters, or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town
Journal Article Insane Sisters, Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town Get access Andrews Gregg, Insane Sisters, Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 262 pp. $29.95. Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 103–104, https…
Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930
Journal Article Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880–1930. By Sandra Lee Barney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2522-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4834-4.) Get access Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace
Journal Article Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Get access O’Brien Ruth, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiv, 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth). $19.00 (paper). Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issu…
The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation. Edward Shorter
"The Public Face of Southern Institutions for the "Feeble-Minded
The article examines the history of Southern institutions and how these facilities are presently facing up to that past. Established both to care for and to control a population of individuals labeled as feeble-minded and deviant, these facilities provided little support and help for patients and quickly devolved into over-crowded, under-funded operations. With the de-institutionalization revolution of the late twentieth century, they ceased to b…
The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930 (review)
Reviewed by: The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930 Steven Noll Gordon Phillips . The Blind in British Society: Charity, State and Community, c. 1780-1930. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. x + 438 pp. Tables. $109.95 (0-7546-5012-X). In the past fifteen years, the field of disability history has grown to be an important topic within the historical discipline. Many monographs and edited volumes have added to both t…
Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom
In the past ten years there has been a major change in the scholarly examination of the field of disability history. This is especially true with works that examine the history of mental illness and mental disability. A field previously marked by contentious debate and highly charged polemical writing has been transformed by a series of books and monographs that seem less interested in grand theory and sweeping generalisations than in deeply exam…
Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control, and Citizenship
In the past 50 years, a revolution has taken place in the care of those persons categorized as having learning difficulties, mental handicaps, mental retardation or developmental disabilities. Focusing on events in the United Kingdom, the individual pieces in Community Care in Perspective examines these changes from a variety of angles. They analyse both the promise and the reality of the movement towards community placement and examine the often…
Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration
Book Review| September 01 2010 Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration Edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009 xii + 286 pp., $69.95 (cloth) Steven Noll Steven Noll Search for other works…
Broiler Chickens and a Critique of the Epistemic Foundations of Animal Modification
Kelly Oliver, Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since 1945
Michael A. Rembis. Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890–1960
One of the hallmarks of modernity has been the obsessive need to classify and label entities according to scientific criteria. Starting in the late nineteenth century, medical doctors, psychologists, educators, and reformers began a systematic program to determine the causes of and treatment for aberrant, often sexually charged, behavior associated with young urban females. Less than a conspiracy but more than simply a series of random actions, t…
Liberalism and the Two Directions of the Local Food Movement
From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food
History Lessons: What Urban Environmental Ethics Can Learn from Nineteenth Century Cities
The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968 by Chanelle N. Rose
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