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

Author(s)

• Wright, David
• Digby, Anne

Bibliographic Information

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

edited by David Wright and Anne Digby

（Studies in the social history of medicine）

Routledge, 1996

Note

Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Contexts and Perspectives, Anne Digby
• Chapter 2 Mental Handicap in Medieval and Early Modern England, Richard Neugebauer
• Chapter 3 Idiocy, the Family and the Community in Early Modern North-East England, Peter Rushton
• Chapter 4 Identifying and Providing for the Mentally Disabled in Early Modern london, Jonathan Andrews
• Chapter 5 The Psychopolitics of Learning and Disability in Seventeenth-Century Thought, C.F. Goodey
• Chapter 6 'Childlike in his Innocence', David Wright
• Chapter 7 The Changing Dynamic of Institutional Care, David Gladstone
• Chapter 8 Institutional Provision for the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England, Mark Jachon
• Chapter 9 Girls, Deficiency and Delinquency, Pamela Cox
• Chapter 10 Family, Community, and State, Mathew Thomson

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA28902594
• ISBN:
  • 041511215X
• LCCN: 95026616
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 238 p., 1 leaf
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV3008.G7
  • DC20 : 362.3/0941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mentally handicapped -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Mentally handicapped -- Care -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Learning disabled -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13387461