| Description |
viii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
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 northern 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 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 difficulties 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 to the establishment of the National Health Service. Together with the useful general introduction to the volume, they not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history; they also illuminate and inform current debates." "The research presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work, and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history."--BOOK JACKET |
| 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 |
Learning disabled -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Learning disabled -- Great Bvitain -- History -- Congresses
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People with mental disabilities -- Care -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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People with mental disabilities -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Mentally Disabled Persons -- history.
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Learning Disorders -- history.
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United Kingdom. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Digby, Anne.
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Wright, David, 1965-
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| LC no. |
95026616 |
| ISBN |
041511215X |
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