Inventing the Feeble Mind : A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
by
James Trent
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0199396183
ISBN-13
9780199396184
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 29th, 2016
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
556 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 26.40 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of medicinePsychiatry
Ksh 8,750.00
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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.
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