From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities
Redaktion: Digby, Anne; Wright, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134831982
• Artikelnr.: 42686822

Autorenporträt

David Wright is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Nottingham., Anne Digby is Professor of Social History at Oxford Brookes University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Contexts and Perspectives
Anne Digby; Chapter 2 Mental Handicap in Medieval and Early Modern England
Richard Neugebauer; Chapter 3 Idiocy
the Family and the Community in Early Modern North-East England
Peter Rushton; Chapter 4 Identifying and Providing for the Mentally Disabled in Early Modern london
Jonathan Andrews; Chapter 5 The Psychopolitics of Learning and Disability in Seventeenth-Century Thought
C.F. Goodey; Chapter 6 `Childlike in his Innocence¿
David Wright; Chapter 7 The Changing Dynamic of Institutional Care
David Gladstone; Chapter 8 Institutional Provision for the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England
Mark Jachon; Chapter 9 Girls
Deficiency and Delinquency
Pamela Cox; Chapter 10 Family
Community
and State
Mathew Thomson;