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Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author | : James Trent |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780199396207 |
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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, 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
Author | : James W. Trent (Jr.) |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 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, 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
Author | : James Trent |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780199396191 |
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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, 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.
Mental Retardation in America
Author | : Steven Noll |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814782484 |
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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.
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author | : James W. Trent (Jr.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Intellectual disability |
ISBN | : 0190645873 |
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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, 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
A History of Mental Retardation
Author | : R. C. Scheerenberger |
Publsiher | : Brookes Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012461565 |
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The Manliest Man
Author | : James W. Trent |
Publsiher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781558499591 |
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He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," he counted among his friends Senator Charles Summer, public school advocate Horace Mann, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A committed reformer, Howe believed in the perfectibility of human beings and spoke out in favor of progressive services for disabled Americans. He embraced a notion of manliness that included heroism under fire but also compassion for the underdog and the oppressed. Though hardly a man without flaws and failures, he nevertheless represented the optimism that characterized much of antebellum American reform. The first full-length biography of Howe in more than fifty years, The Manliest Man offers an original view of his personal life, his association with social causes of his time, and his efforts to shape those causes in ways that allowed for the greater inclusion of devalued people in the mainstream of American life. Book jacket.
Phallacies
Author | : Kathleen M. Brian,James W. Trent, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780190459000 |
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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. The chapters cover a broad range of topics: institutional structures that define what it means to be a man with a disability; the place of women in situations where masculinity and disability are constructed; men with physical and war-related disabilities; male hysteria, suicide clubs, and mercy killing; male disability in literature and popular culture; and more. All the authors regard masculinity and disability in the historical contexts of the Americas and Western Europe, with particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of the complex, and at times competing, interactions between masculinity and disability.