Anne Digby / David Wright (eds.)

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency

Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities
Herausgeber: Digby, Anne; Wright, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Spanning the Medieval period to the establishment of the National Health Service, this volume illuminates and informs current debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780415112154
• ISBN-10: 041511215X
• Artikelnr.: 35669406

Autorenporträt

David Wright is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Nottingham., Anne Digby is Professor of Social History at Oxford Brookes University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Contexts and Perspectives
Anne Digby; Chapter 2 Mental Handicap in Medieval and Early Modern England
Richard Neugebauer; Chapter 3 Idiocy
the Family and the Community in Early Modern North-East England
Peter Rushton; Chapter 4 Identifying and Providing for the Mentally Disabled in Early Modern london
Jonathan Andrews; Chapter 5 The Psychopolitics of Learning and Disability in Seventeenth-Century Thought
C.F. Goodey; Chapter 6 'Childlike in his Innocence'
David Wright; Chapter 7 The Changing Dynamic of Institutional Care
David Gladstone; Chapter 8 Institutional Provision for the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England
Mark Jachon; Chapter 9 Girls
Deficiency and Delinquency
Pamela Cox; Chapter 10 Family
Community
and State
Mathew Thomson;