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.
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.
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).
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One - Idiots in America Chapter Two - Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education Chapter Three - The Burden of the Feebleminded Chapter Four - Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920 Chapter Five - The Menace of the Feebleminded Chapter Six - Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization Chapter Seven - Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of Wars, Angels, Parents, and Politicians Chapter Eight - Intellectual Disability and the Dilemma of Doubt Epilogue - On Suffering Fools Gladly Notes References Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One - Idiots in America Chapter Two - Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education Chapter Three - The Burden of the Feebleminded Chapter Four - Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920 Chapter Five - The Menace of the Feebleminded Chapter Six - Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization Chapter Seven - Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of Wars, Angels, Parents, and Politicians Chapter Eight - Intellectual Disability and the Dilemma of Doubt Epilogue - On Suffering Fools Gladly Notes References Index
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