Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United StatesOxford University Press, 2016 M11 1 - 384 páginas Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history. |
Contenido
Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education | |
The Burden of the Feebleminded | |
Living and Working in the Institution 18901920 | |
At Centurys End Human Weal | |
Sterilization Parole and Routinization | |
Of War Angels Parents | |
Intellectual Disability and the Dilemma of Doubt | |
On Suffering Fools Gladly | |
Index | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States James W. Trent Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the ... James Trent Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States James W. Trent Jr. Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
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