Inventing the Feeble Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Feeble Mind write by James Trent. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Inventing the Feeble Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Inventing the Feeble Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Feeble Mind write by James W. Trent Jr.. This book was released on 1994-03-16. Inventing the Feeble Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limitations, has determined their institutional treatment.
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Inventing the Feeble Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Feeble Mind write by James W. Trent (Jr.). This book was released on 2017. Inventing the Feeble Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.
Mental Retardation in America
Mental Retardation in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Retardation in America write by Steven Noll. This book was released on 2004-02. Mental Retardation in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressions that represent an old, if unstable, history. Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as "idiocy," to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America. Mental Retardation in America includes essays with a wide range of authors who approach the problems of retardation from many differing points of view. This work is divided into five sections, each following in chronological order the major changes in the treatment of people classified as retarded. Exploring historical issues, as well as current public policy concerns, Mental Retardation in America covers topics ranging from representations of the mentally disabled as social burdens and social menaces; Freudian inspired ideas of adjustment and adaptation; the relationship between community care and institutional treatment; historical events, such as the Buck v. Bell decision, which upheld the opinion on eugenic sterilization; the evolution of the disability rights movement; and the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
Phallacies
Phallacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phallacies write by Kathleen M. Brian. This book was released on 2017. Phallacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability. Essays include war-related disabilities, male hysteria, suicide clubs, mercy killings, and portraits of disabled men in literature and popular culture.
