These resources are related to the Center for Ethics program on 7 September 2004 entitled “Hate and the Uncanny Body: Treating ‘Rational Fear' with Feminist Ethics; Or, the Strange Cases of Nike and the Supreme Court."

For more information regarding the program visit the Center for Ethics website.

Materials by Dr. Diane Price Herndl, on Library Reserve for The Center for Ethics

Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl, eds. Feminisms : an anthology of literary theory and criticism, 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997,
Call #: 809.89287 W275f, 1997

Price Herndl, Diane. Invalid women : figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Call #: 813.009 P945i

Prince Herndl, Diane. “The Invisible (Invalid) Woman: African-American Women, Illness, and Nineteenth-Century Narrative.” Women’s Studies 24 (1995): 553-572.

Prince Herndl, Diane. “Invalid Masculinity: Silence, Hospitals, and Anesthesia in A Farewell to Arms.” The Hemingway Review 21, no. 1 (2001): 38-52.

Price Herndl, Diane. “Sex and death and the crippled body: a meditation.” In Disability studies : enabling the humanities, ed. Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Call #: 305.90816 S675d

Reference Works

General Disabilities

Note: The Trexler Library is home to The Dr. Carl F. Odhner Disabilities Resources Collection. You can follow the link to search for materials in the collection. Even more items can be found by searching the library catalog using applicable keywords or subject headings.

Accardo, Pasquale J. and Barbara Y. Whitman, eds. Dictionary of developmental disabilities terminology, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Pub., 2002.
Ref. 618.9285889 A169d

Alliance for Technology Access. Computer and web resources for people with disabilities : a guide to exploring today's assistive technology, 3rd ed. Alameda, CA: Hunter House Publishers, 2000.
Ref. 004.087 A436c

Dell Orto, Arthur E. and Robert P. Marinelli, eds. Encyclopedia of disability and rehabilitation. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1995.
Ref. 362.403 E56o

Matthews, Dawn D., ed. Disabilities sourcebook: basic consumer health information about physical and psychiatric disabilities. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Ref. 362.4 M438d

Pelka, Fred. The ABC-CLIO companion to the disability rights movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Ref. 323.3 P384a

Sardegna, Jill. The encyclopedia of blindness and vision impairment, 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
Ref. 362.4103 E56o

A woman's guide to coping with disability, 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: Resources for Rehabilitation, 1997.
Ref. 362.4082 W872g

General Disease and Illness

Carlson, Karen J., Stephanie A. Eisenstat, and Terra Ziporyn. The Harvard guide to women's health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Ref. 616.0082 C284h

Longe, Jacqueline L., ed. Gale encyclopedia of medicine, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002.
Ref. 616.003 G151e v.1-5

Nordhaus, Hannah. Health : a concern for every American. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 H863h

Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck, ed. Worldwide health sourcebook : basic information about global health issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease dispersion and prevention. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 W927h

Thoene, Jess G., ed. Physicians' guide to rare diseases, 2nd ed. Montvale, N.J. : Dowden, 1995.
Ref. 616.07 P578g

Turkington, Carol and Bonnie Ashby.Encyclopedia of infectious diseases. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Ref. 616.903 T939e

Watstein, Sarah and John Jovanovic. Statistical handbook on infectious diseases. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Statistics Ref. 614.0727 W343s

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Use this database to find U.S. federal and state law, case law, regulations, etc…surrounding disability and disease.

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
This sociology database is an excellent source for finding articles on how people with disabilities and/or disease interact with their society, and how the general society interacts with them. Also, use this database to find articles on public policy relating to disability and disease. Another good source for finding public policy resources is PAIS.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and disability or on women and disease.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

MLA
This literature (humanities) database is useful for finding criticism and articles about representations of people with disease and representations of the disabled.

PubMed (Medline)
An excellent source for finding articles from the medical field.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multidisciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Selected Works from the Main Collection

Brody, Howard. Stories of sickness. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Main Collection 610 B864s

Butler, Ruth and Hester Parr, eds. Mind and body spaces : geographies of illness, impairment, and disability. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Main Collection 362.4 B986m

Cohen, Richard M. Blindsided: lifting a life above illness: a reluctant memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
ON ORDER

Davis, Cynthia J. Bodily and narrative forms : the influence of medicine on American literature, 1845-1915. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Main Collection 810.9356 D261b

Fahy, Thomas and Kimball King, eds. Peering behind the curtain : disability, illness, and the extraordinary body in contemporary theater. New York : Routledge, 2002.
Main Collection 812.509 F158p

Gilman, Sander L. Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Main Collection 306.46 G487d (On Library Reserve for the Center for Ethics)

Gilman, Sander L. Picturing health and illness : images of identity and difference. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Main Collection 610.9 G487p (On Library Reserve for the Center for Ethics)

Mascie-Taylor, C.G.N., ed. The Anthropology of disease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Main Collection 306.461 M395a

Mitchell, David T. and Sharon L. Snyder, eds. The body and physical difference : discourses of disability. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Main Collection 362.4 M681b

Oliver, Michael. Understanding disability : from theory to practice. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Main Collection 362.4 O48u

Serlin, David Harley. Replaceable you : engineering the body in postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
ON ORDER

Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, eds. Disability studies : enabling the humanities. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Main Collection 305.90816 S675d

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Main Collection 813.009 T484e

Wendell, Susan. The rejected body : feminist philosophical reflections on disability. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Main Collection 362.4082 W469r

Selected Websites

Governmental and International Organizations

Americans with Disabilites Act Homepage
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

Center for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/

National Council on Disability
http://www.ncd.gov/

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/

Associations and Centers

Centre for Disability Studies (UK)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/

Centre for Medical Humanities (UK)
http://www.pcps.ucl.ac.uk/cmh/

Disability Resources
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/disres.htm
An annotated listing of Disability Studies resources maintained by Syracuse University's Disability Studies program.

Society for Disability Studies
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/

Worldwatch Institute: Health and Diseases
http://www.worldwatch.org/topics/people/disease/

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