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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820266303321

Titolo

From idiocy to mental deficiency [[electronic resource] ] : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-83199-4

1-280-32776-6

0-203-16224-2

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Studies in the social history of medicine

Altri autori (Persone)

WrightDavid <1965->

DigbyAnne

Disciplina

362.3/0941

Soggetti

People with mental disabilities - Great Britain - History

People with mental disabilities - Care - Great Britain - History

Learning disabled - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of