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Titolo |
From idiocy to mental deficiency [[electronic resource] ] : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-83199-4 |
1-280-32776-6 |
0-203-16224-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WrightDavid <1965-> |
DigbyAnne |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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People with mental disabilities - Great Britain - History |
People with mental disabilities - Care - Great Britain - History |
Learning disabled - Great Britain - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on the contributors; Contexts and perspectives; Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England: Criteria, measurement and care; Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England; Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London; The psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought; 'Childlike in his innocence': Lay attitudes to 'idiots' and 'imbeciles' in Victorian England; The changing dynamic of institutional care: The Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864 1914 |
Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England: Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent careGirls, deficiency and delinquency; Family, community, and state: The micro-politics of mental deficiency; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to |
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