title: Laura Bridgman and the history of disability. [Reviews of: Freeburg, E. The education of Laura Bridgman: first deaf and blind person to learn language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001; Gitter, E. The imprisoned guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001].
authors.affiliation: Department of History, University of Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Douglas C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Baynton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000266:history*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003638:Deafness / Q000266:history*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States