From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities /
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| ISBN: | 0203162242 9780203162248 9780415112154 041511215X 9786610327768 6610327769 9781134831999 1134831994 9781134831944 1134831943 9781134831982 1134831986 9781138878266 113887826X |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Contexts and perspectives / Anne Digby
- 2. Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England : criteria, measurement and care / Richard Neugebauer
- 3. Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England / Peter Rushton
- 4. Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London / Jonathan Andrews
- 5. the psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought / C.F. Goodey
- 6. "Childlike in his innocence" : lay attitudes to "idiots" and "imbeciles" in Victorian England / David Wright
- 7. The changing dynamic of institutional care : the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864-1914 / David Gladstone
- 8. Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England : Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent care / Mark Jackson
- 9. Girls, deficiency and delinquency / Pamela Cox
- 10. Family, community, and the state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency / Mathew Thomson.