Author: Steven Noll
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807845318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Feeble-minded in Our Midst
Author: Steven Noll
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807845318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807845318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
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.
The Kallikak Family
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Menace of the Feeble Minded
Author: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Committee on protection of the feeble-minded
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Feebleminded
Author: Ariana Harwicz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916465602
Category : Argentine fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The unraveling of a mother/daughter relationship that is at once chaotic, loving, and mercilessly destructive.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916465602
Category : Argentine fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The unraveling of a mother/daughter relationship that is at once chaotic, loving, and mercilessly destructive.
The Problem of the Feeble-minded
Author: Mrs. Walter Slater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Feeble-minded
Author: Edward Birchall Sherlock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Feeble-minded
Author: Committee on Provision for the Feeble-Minded
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
A History of Mental Retardation
Author: R. C. Scheerenberger
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Menace of the Feeble-minded
Author: Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description