{"id":21422,"date":"2022-10-12T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/book-award-announcement-familial-fitness-by-sandy-sufian\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:25:41","slug":"book-award-announcement-familial-fitness-by-sandy-sufian","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/book-award-announcement-familial-fitness-by-sandy-sufian\/","title":{"rendered":"Book award announcement: Familial Fitness by Sandy Sufian"},"template":"","news_categories":[15,13],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21422","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-honors-and-recognition","news_categories-publications"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>Congratulation to <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/disability-human-development\/directory\/sufian-sandy\/\">Sandy Sufian<\/a>! The Disability History Association Awards Committee selected\u00a0<em>Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America<\/em>, as the Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The committee shared the following assessment: &#8220;Sufian\u2019s study&#8230;represents intersectional history at its best by unpacking numerous entanglements such as race, eugenics, and epidemics&#8230;The narrative is persuasive in showing how dominant views on normality and health in American society have shifted throughout the century.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Familial Fitness\u00a0<\/em>is a &#8220;masterful book&#8230;The analysis is clear, compelling, and well\u00a0substantiated.&#8221; The book is &#8220;a\u00a0well-argued and rigorously researched history of disability and adoption in the United States. The author shows clear mastery over the legal and systematic structures that dominate Modern American adoption processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book Award of 2022 from the Disability History Association","content_author":"Tamar Heller","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=21422"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=21422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}