James Trent (Professor of Sociology and Professor of S Social Work

Broschiertes Buch

Inventing the Feeble Mind

A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

James W. Trent Jr. is author of Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (1994) that won the 1995 Hervey B. Wilbur Award of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. He coedited Mental Retardation in America: An Historical Reader (2004), and authored The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of 19th Century American Reform (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780199396184
• ISBN-10: 0199396183
• Artikelnr.: 47399247