Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. New Ways of Seeing -- 1. Activist Practice / Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd -- 2. Picturing People with Disabilities: Classical Portraiture as Reconstructive Narrative / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 3. Agents at Angkor / Lain Hart -- 4. 'See No Evil' / Victoria Phiri -- 5. Ghosts in the War Museum / Ana Carden-Coyne -- 6. Behind the Shadow of Merrick / David Hevey -- 7. Disability Reframed: Challenging Visitor Perceptions in the Museum / Jocelyn Dodd, Ceri Jones, Debbie Jolly and Richard Sandell -- Pt. 2. Interpretive Journeys and Experiments -- 8. To Label the Label? 'Learning Disability' and Exhibiting 'Critical Proximity' / Helen Graham -- 9. Hurting and Healing: Reflections on Representing Mental Illness in Museums / Jo Besley and Carol Low -- 10. Histories of Disability and Medicine: Reconciling Historical Narratives and Contemporary Values / Julie Anderson and Lisa and O'Sullivan -- 11. Revealing Moments: Representations of Disability and Sexuality / Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Jacobs -- 12. Red Wheelchair in the White Snowdrift / Geraldine Chimirri-Russell -- 13. Face to Face: Exhibiting and Interpreting Facial Disfigurement in a Museum Context / Emma Chambers -- Pt. 3. Unsettling Practices -- 14. 'Out from Under': A Brief History of Everything / Kathryn Church, Melanie Panitch, Catherine Frazee and Phaedra Livingstone -- 15. Transforming Practice: Disability Perspectives and the Museum / Shari Rosenstein Werb and Tari Hartman Squire -- 16. Reciprocity, Accountability, Empowerment: Emancipatory Principles and Practices in the Museum / Heather Hollins -- 17. Disability, Human Rights and the Public Gaze: the Losheng Story Museum / Chia-Li Chen -- 18. Museum for All? The Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture / Hanna Mellemsether -- 19. Collective Bodies: What Museums do for Disability Studies / Katherine Ott.