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Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind

A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

9780199396184
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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, andrare 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.
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OUP USA
87797
9780199396184
9780199396184

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Publication date
2016
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
392
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
544
  • List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One - Idiots in America; Chapter Two - Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education; Chapter Three - The Burden of the Feebleminded; Chapter Four - Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920; Chapter Five - The Menace of the Feebleminded; Chapter Six - Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization; Chapter Seven - Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of Wars, Angels, Parents, and Politicians; Chapter Eight - Intellectual Disability and the Dilemma of Doubt; Epilogue - On Suffering Fools Gladly; Notes; References; Index;
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