Histories of Disability in Latin America

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Heather Vrana (814 NW 17th Ave), David Carey, Jr.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
03 March 2026

History of the Americas; Disability: social aspects; History of medicine

Series: Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism

Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.

Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability's place in the region's past, bringing together original scholarship by historians and anthropologists to illuminate how bodies, minds, and the concept of difference have been understood across centuries of Latin American history. Edited by Heather Vrana and David Carey Jr., this volume foregrounds the lived experiences, agency, and social meanings of disability in a region too often marginalized in global disability studies.

With contributions and case studies based on archival and ethnographic research, the book illustrates how colonialism, slavery, war, industrialization, imperialism, and revolution have generated both disability and distinctive conceptions of disability. Rather than applying rigid Western frameworks, contributors examine Indigenous and Afro–Latin American terminologies and epistemologies to explore how societies have made sense of bodily difference, care, and capacity. In doing so, they critically engage medicalized and deficit-based interpretations that have long dominated historical and scholarly narratives. This collection shifts the center of inquiry to Latin America, interrogates presentist assumptions, and reconsiders the historical emergence of disability through the prisms of race, class, gender, and power.

Histories of Disability in Latin America engages and expands key debates in both disability studies and Latin American historiography. This book invites readers to rethink what disability has meant—and continues to mean—across time and place. It is essential reading for those interested in the entanglements of embodiment, identity, and the historical forces that have shaped life in the Americas.

Edited by: Heather Vrana (814 NW 17th Ave), David Carey, Jr.
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781421454054
ISBN 10: 142145405X
Series: Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 03 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heather Vrana is an associate professor of modern Latin America at the University of Florida. She is the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996, and a coeditor of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala. David Carey Jr. is the Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador and Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive, among other books.