A history of intelligence and "intellectual disability" the shaping of psychology in early modern Europe

C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as h...

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Other Authors: Goodey, C. F., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2016.
2016.
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Summary:C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as historically contingent, this paradigm-shifting work chronicles the modern concept of human intelligence as a cultural creation with roots in the religious and social matrices of early modern Europe.
Item Description:"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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