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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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Sraith: | Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=71374 |
Clár na nÁbhar:
- 1. Contexts and perspectives / Anne Digby
- 2. Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England : criteria, measurement and care / Richard Neugebauer
- 3. Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England / Peter Rushton
- 4. Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London / Jonathan Andrews
- 5. the psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought / C.F. Goodey
- 6. "Childlike in his innocence" : lay attitudes to "idiots" and "imbeciles" in Victorian England / David Wright
- 7. The changing dynamic of institutional care : the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864-1914 / David Gladstone
- 8. Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England : Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent care / Mark Jackson
- 9. Girls, deficiency and delinquency / Pamela Cox
- 10. Family, community, and the state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency / Mathew Thomson.