Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.
Author: Steven Noll
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807845318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the mentally handicapped in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions that had established similar institutions much earlier. In addition, Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in controlling and isolating perceived deviants. According to Noll, these conflicting ideologies meant that most southern institutions were founded without a clear mission or an understanding of their relationship to southern society at large.
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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"Report on work done at the Vineland research laboratory during the past five years."-Pref.
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feeble-mindedness
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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"Report on work done at the Vineland research laboratory during the past five years."-Pref.
Author: Gerald O'Brien
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103435
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900–30). Such social control efforts are easier to understand when we consider the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric propagandists invoke to frame their potential victims. This book details the major rhetorical themes employed within the context of eugenic propaganda, drawing largely on original sources of the period. Early in the twentieth century the term “moron” was developed to describe the primary targets of eugenic control. This book demonstrates how the image of moronity in the United States was shaped by eugenicists. This book will be of interest not only to disability and eugenic scholars and historians, but to anyone who wants to explore the means by which pejorative metaphors are used to support social control efforts against vulnerable community groups.
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377890852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396191
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.
Author: R. C. Scheerenberger
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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