[PDF] The Feeble Minded eBook

Author : Steven Noll
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807845318

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Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the mentally handicapped in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions that had established similar institutions much earlier. In addition, Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in controlling and isolating perceived deviants. According to Noll, these conflicting ideologies meant that most southern institutions were founded without a clear mission or an understanding of their relationship to southern society at large.

Author : James Trent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,30 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 : Ariana Harwicz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Argentine fiction
ISBN : 9781916465602

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The unraveling of a mother/daughter relationship that is at once chaotic, loving, and mercilessly destructive.

Author : Helen MacMurchy
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1920
Category : History
ISBN :

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The Almosts: A Study of the Feeble-Minded by Helen MacMurchy, first published in 1920, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.