Preface to the fourth edition
Historical perspectives
Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis
Disability and the justification of inequality in american history / Douglas Baynton
"Heaven's special child" : the making of poster children / Paul Longmore
Disabling attitudes : u.s. disability law and the ada amendments act / Elizabeth Emens
The politics of disability
Disabling postcolonialism : global disability cultures and democratic criticism / Clare Barker and Stuart Murray
Abortion and disability : who should and should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard
"Disability rights and selective abortion" / Marsha Saxton
Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Berube
A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis
The institution yet to come : analyzing incarceration through a disability lens / Liat Ben-Moshe
Stigma and illness
Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman-Brown
Unhealthy disabled / Susan Wendell
Theorizing disability
"Reassigning meaning" / Simi Linton
Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye
Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson
The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare
Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
The unexceptional schizophrenic : a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast
Deaf studies in the 21st century : deaf-gain and the future of the human / H-Dirksen L. Baumann and Joseph J. Murray
Identities and intersectionalities
The end of identity politics : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis
Disability and the theory of complex embodiment : for identity politics in a new register / Tobin Siebers
Defining mental disability / Margaret Price.