Author: Henry Herbert GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Kallikak Family
Author: Henry Herbert GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James TrentPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
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.
Feeble-minded in Our Midst
Author: Steven NollPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807845318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the mentally handicapped in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions that had established similar institutions much earlier. In addition, Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in controlling and isolating perceived deviants. According to Noll, these conflicting ideologies meant that most southern institutions were founded without a clear mission or an understanding of their relationship to southern society at large.
Feeble-mindedness
Author: Henry Herbert GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"Report on work done at the Vineland research laboratory during the past five years."-Pref.
Heredity of Feeble-mindedness
Author: Henry Herbert GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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A History of Mental Retardation
Author: R. C. ScheerenbergerPublisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Problem of the Feeble-minded
Author: Mrs. Walter SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Feeble-Minded in Our Midst
Author: Steven NollPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the 'feeble-minded' in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions that had established similar institutions much earlier. At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in controlling and isolating perceived deviants. According to Noll, these conflicting ideologies meant that most southern institutions were founded without a clear mission or an understanding of their relationship to southern society at large. Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions throughout the South and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. He also examines the composition of the population labeled feeble-minded and demonstrates a relationship between demographic variables and institutional placement, including their effect on the determination of a patient's degree of disability. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James W. Trent (Jr.)Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
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.
The Feeble-minded
Author: Edward Birchall SherlockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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