Inventing the Feeble Mind

A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Social Services & Welfare, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, History, Specialties, Psychiatry
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Author: James Trent ISBN: 9780199396207
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: James Trent
ISBN: 9780199396207
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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