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OverviewPity, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Trent (Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780199396184ISBN 10: 0199396183 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 29 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Idiots in America Chapter Two Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education Chapter Three The Burden of the Feebleminded Chapter Four Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920 Chapter Five The Menace of the Feebleminded Chapter Six Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization Chapter Seven Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of Wars, Angels, Parents, and Politicians Chapter Eight Intellectual Disability and the Dilemma of Doubt Epilogue On Suffering Fools Gladly Notes References IndexReviewsThis well-written history of mental retardation documents our changing perceptions of the 'feebleminded.' . . . This is must reading for anyone interested in this vital subject. Replete with shocking photographs and a 40-page reference list. A shattering document. -- Psychoanalytic Books Trents thorough examination of the history of intellectual disability in the United States has become a key text for anyone interested in this topic. Though not a historian, Trent has completed thorough archival research and interviewed contemporary witnesses to create a comprehensive, though accessible, introduction to a history that shines a light on the best and worst of the human condition. * Daniel Werges, H-Net Reviews * Author InformationJames W. Trent Jr. is author of Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (1994) that won the 1995 Hervey B. Wilbur Award of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. He coedited Mental Retardation in America: An Historical Reader (2004), and authored The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of 19th Century American Reform (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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