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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goodey, C. F., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2016.
2016.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421119006719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Problematical intellects in ancient Greece
  • Intelligence and disability : socio-economic structures
  • Intelligence and disability : status and political power
  • Intelligence, disability and honour
  • Intelligence, disability and grace
  • Fools and their medical histories
  • Psychology, biology and the ethics of exceptionalism
  • John Locke and his successors : the historical contingency of disability.