| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Contents |
1. Contexts and perspectives / Anne Digby -- 2. Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England : criteria, measurement and care / Richard Neugebauer -- 3. Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England / Peter Rushton -- 4. Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London / Jonathan Andrews -- 5. the psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought / C.F. Goodey -- 6. "Childlike in his innocence" : lay attitudes to "idiots" and "imbeciles" in Victorian England / David Wright -- 7. The changing dynamic of institutional care : the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864-1914 / David Gladstone -- 8. Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England : Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent care / Mark Jackson -- 9. Girls, deficiency and delinquency / Pamela Cox -- 10. Family, community, and the state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency / Mathew Thomson |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
People with mental disabilities -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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People with mental disabilities -- Care -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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Learning disabled -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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Persons with Mental Disabilities -- history
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Learning Disabilities -- history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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Learning disabled
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People with mental disabilities
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People with mental disabilities -- Care
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, David, 1965-
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Digby Anne
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| ISBN |
0203162242 |
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9780203162248 |
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9780415112154 |
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041511215X |
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9786610327768 |
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6610327769 |
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9781134831999 |
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1134831994 |
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9781134831944 |
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1134831943 |
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9781134831982 |
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1134831986 |
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9781138878266 |
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113887826X |
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