LEADER 03690nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910966145803321 005 20251116143159.0 010 $a1-134-83199-4 010 $a1-280-32776-6 010 $a0-203-16224-2 035 $a(CKB)111056485521762 035 $a(EBL)169378 035 $a(OCoLC)560371841 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158810 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177923 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158810 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10149967 035 $a(PQKB)11163609 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC169378 035 $a(CaSebORM)9780415112154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL169378 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL32776 035 $a(OCoLC)50632443 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485521762 100 $a19951201d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFrom idiocy to mental deficiency $ehistorical perspectives on people with learning disabilities /$fedited by David Wright and Anne Digby 205 $a1st edition 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the social history of medicine 300 $aBased on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992. 311 08$a1-138-87826-X 311 08$a0-415-11215-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aInstitutional 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 330 $aFrom Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of 410 0$aStudies in the social history of medicine. 606 $aPeople with mental disabilities$zGreat Britain$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aPeople with mental disabilities$xCare$zGreat Britain$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aLearning disabled$zGreat Britain$xHistory$vCongresses 615 0$aPeople with mental disabilities$xHistory 615 0$aPeople with mental disabilities$xCare$xHistory 615 0$aLearning disabled$xHistory 676 $a362.3/0941 701 $aWright$b David$f1965-$0317696 701 $aDigby$b Anne$0133445 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966145803321 996 $aFrom idiocy to mental deficiency$94496705 997 $aUNINA