James Trent (Professor of Sociology and Professor of S Social Work

Inventing the Feeble Mind

A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780199396184
• ISBN-10: 0199396183
• Artikelnr.: 47399247

Autorenporträt

James W. Trent Jr. is author of Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (1994) that won the 1995 Hervey B. Wilbur Award of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. He coedited Mental Retardation in America: An Historical Reader (2004), and authored The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of 19th Century American Reform (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

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