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



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Titolo: From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities / / edited by David Wright and Anne Digby Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
Edizione: 1st edition
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina: 362.3/0941
Soggetto topico: People with mental disabilities - Great Britain - History
People with mental disabilities - Care - Great Britain - History
Learning disabled - Great Britain - History
Altri autori: WrightDavid <1965->  
DigbyAnne  
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
Titolo autorizzato: From idiocy to mental deficiency  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-83199-4
1-280-32776-6
0-203-16224-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820266303321
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Serie: Studies in the social history of medicine.