[PDF] The Menace Of The Feeble Minded eBook

Author : James Trent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199396205

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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.

Author : Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Committee on Protection of the Feeble-Minded
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781330337158

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Excerpt from The Menace of the Feeble Minded: In Massachusetts the Need of a Program The Menace of the Feeble-Minded The tragic story of the Gorwin family. Ten thousand feeble-minded a conservative estimate of the number at large in the State. Only nineteen hundred feeble-minded under care in the two institutions in Massachusetts. Eight hundred and eighty-six waiting to be admitted on April 1st. $64,775 the cost to the State of three families with twenty children, or about $3,240 per person. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1996-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393314250

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Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve, Further, he has added five essays, in a separate section at the end, on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the claim of this book to be, as Leo J.

Author : James W. Trent (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199396183

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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.