julie.anderson@manchester.ac.uk

Julie has a long-standing interest in the history of disability in Britain. She became fascinated by historical research into disability while writing her PhD and switched her topic to a study of disability, physical exercise and sport 1918-70. In addition to a number of articles on disability history, Julie has published articles and a book on the history of hip replacement, Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement (Palgrave, 2007) which, in part examines the nature of ageing and disability and the ways that medical technologies are ‘experienced’ and their impact on older people’s quality of life. She has also published an edited volume of essays with Carsten Timmermann on medical technologies entitled Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective (Palgrave, 2006). Her book ‘The Soul of A Nation’: Rehabilitation and the Second World War will be published with Manchester University Press in 2009. She is currently researching a second monograph on medical, social and cultural representations of blindness in Britain 1900-48 which is funded by the Wellcome Trust. Julie is co-editor with Walton Schalick (Madison, Wisconsin) of a series on the history of disability with Manchester University Press.

Key Interests: Rehabilitation, Blindness, Orthopaedics, War, Medical Technologies, Sport