Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Historical Essays
Societal Responses to Mental Disorders in Prerevolutionary Russia / Julie V. Brown
The Origins of Defectology / William O. McCagg
The Vygotskian Tradition in Soviet Psychological Study of Deaf Children / Jane E. Knox and Alex Kozulin
Industrial Accidents and Their Prevention in the Interwar Period / Lewis Siegelbaum
The Stalinist Mentality and the Treatment of Schizophrenia / David Joravsky
Images of the Disabled, Especially the War Wounded, in Soviet Literature / Vera Dunham
II. The Contemporary Scene
Programs for the Disabled in the USSR / Bernice Madison
Everyday Life of the Disabled in the USSR / Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn
Disability as Dissidence: The Action Group to Defend the Rights of the Disabled in the USSR / Paul D. Raymond
Dissidence as Disability: The Medicalization of Dissidence in Soviet Russia / Mark G. Field
Attitudinal Change in Eastern Europe: The Case of György Konrád / William O. McCagg
Conclusion / William O. McCagg and Lewis Siegelbaum
Notes on Contributors