Description
| Product ID: | 9780199396184 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Inventing the Feeble Mind |
| Subtitle: | A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States |
| Authors: | Author: James Trent |
| Page Count: | 392 |
| Subjects: | History of medicine, History of medicine, Psychiatry, Psychiatry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-12-29 |
