Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199396205

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.

Mental Defectives

Mental Defectives
Author: Martin W. Barr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1904
Genre: Intellectual disability
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1480
Release: 1912
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1923
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The Raising of Intelligence

The Raising of Intelligence
Author: H. H. Spitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136562079

The history of attempts to raise the intelligence of mentally retarded individuals is wrought with controversy. Spanning the years from 1800 to the present, this book offers a critical review of the methods and philosophy behind these efforts. A fascinating contribution to the long-standing debate on the malleability of intelligence and the influence of heredity and environment.

Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James W. Trent (Jr.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199396183

Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.

List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus

List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1979
Genre: Index medicus
ISBN:

Issues for 1977-1979 include also Special List journals being indexed in cooperation with other institutions. Citations from these journals appear in other MEDLARS bibliographies and in MEDLING, but not in Index medicus.