03751nam 2200697 a 450 991045516710332120200520144314.01-134-83199-41-280-32776-60-203-16224-2(CKB)111056485521762(EBL)169378(OCoLC)560371841(SSID)ssj0000158810(PQKBManifestationID)11177923(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158810(PQKBWorkID)10149967(PQKB)11163609(MiAaPQ)EBC169378(CaSebORM)9780415112154(Au-PeEL)EBL169378(CaPaEBR)ebr10058199(CaONFJC)MIL32776(OCoLC)50632443(EXLCZ)9911105648552176219951201d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom idiocy to mental deficiency[electronic resource] historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities /edited by David Wright and Anne Digby1st editionLondon ;New York Routledge19961 online resource (248 p.)Studies in the social history of medicineBased on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992.1-138-87826-X 0-415-11215-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 1914Institutional 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; IndexFrom 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 ofStudies in the social history of medicine.People with mental disabilitiesGreat BritainHistoryCongressesPeople with mental disabilitiesCareGreat BritainHistoryCongressesLearning disabledGreat BritainHistoryCongressesElectronic books.People with mental disabilitiesHistoryPeople with mental disabilitiesCareHistoryLearning disabledHistory362.3/0941Wright David1965-317696Digby Anne133445MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455167103321From idiocy to mental deficiency1965078UNINA