From idiocy to mental deficiency historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wright, David, 1965- (-), Digby, Anne
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 1996.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Studies in the social history of medicine.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798492906719
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  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on the contributors; Contexts and perspectives; Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England: Criteria, measurement and care; Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England; Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London; The psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought; 'Childlike in his innocence': Lay attitudes to 'idiots' and 'imbeciles' in Victorian England; The changing dynamic of institutional care: The Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864 1914
  • Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England: Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent careGirls, deficiency and delinquency; Family, community, and state: The micro-politics of mental deficiency; Index