Mental retardation in America : a historical reader /
Mental retardation in America : a historical reader /
edited by Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr.
- New York : New York University Press,
- vii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The history of disability .
- History of disability series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Report made to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1848) / A thesis on idiocy (1879) / The legacy of the almshouse / 'Beside her sat her idiot child' : families and developmental disability in mid-nineteenth-century America / Samuel G. Howe -- William B. Fish -- Philip Ferguson -- Penny Richards. Before the asylum. Report of Committee of Classification of Feeble-minded -- Mongols in our midst : John Langdon Down and the ethnic classification of idiocy, 1858-1924 / 'Mongolian imbecility' : race and its rejection in the understanding of a mental disease / Rearing the child who never grew : ideologies of parenting and intellectual disability in American history / The parable of the Kallikak family : explaining the meaning of heredity in 1912 / Fictional voices and viewpoints for the mentally deficient, 1929-1939 / Sexuality and story-telling : literary representations of the 'feeble-minded' in the age of sterilization / David Wright -- Daniel Kevles -- Janice Brockley -- Leila Zenderland -- Gerald Schmidt -- Karen Keely. Defining and categorizing : establishing "the other." The eugenical sterilization of the feeble-minded / The criminalization of mental retardation / The state and the multiply-disadvantaged : the case of epilepsy / The 'sociological advantages' of sterilization: fiscal policies and feebleminded women in interwar Minnesota / Harry Laughlin -- Nicole Rafter -- Ellen Dwyer -- Molly Ladd-Taylor. The age of institutionalization and sterilization. Hope for retarded children / 'Mental deficients' fighting fascism : the unplanned normalization of World War II / Education for children with mental retardation : parent activism, public policy, and family ideology in the 1950s / 'Nice, average Americans' : postwar parents' groups and the defense of the normal family / Formal health care at the community level : the child development clinics of the 1950s and 1960s / A pivotal place in special education policy : the first Arkansas Children's Colony / Eunice Kennedy Shriver -- Stephen A. Gelb -- Kathleen W. Jones -- Katherine Castles -- Wendy M. Nehring -- Elizabeth F. Shores. From top and bottom : parents and the state in the mid-20th century. U.S. Supreme Court decision on capital punishment & mental retardation (2002) -- Historical social geography / The litigator as reformer / No profits, just a pittance : work, compensation, and people defined as mentally disabled in Ontario, 1964-1990 / Family values / Deborah S. Metzel -- David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman -- Geoffrey Reaume -- Michael Berube. The promise and problems of community placement back to a beginning?
The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressions that represent an old, if unstable, history. Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as "idiocy," to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America.
0814782477 9780814782477 0814782485 9780814782484
2003018526
GBA3T6453 bnb GBA432870 bnb
Bitterfeld
Intellectual disability--United States.
Intellectual Disability--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
--
Mental retardation.
Mentale retardatie.
Geistige Behinderung
Geschichte
United States.
United States.
USA.
HV3006.A4 / M435 2004
362.3/0973
2005 J-952 WM 11 AA1 / M549 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Report made to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1848) / A thesis on idiocy (1879) / The legacy of the almshouse / 'Beside her sat her idiot child' : families and developmental disability in mid-nineteenth-century America / Samuel G. Howe -- William B. Fish -- Philip Ferguson -- Penny Richards. Before the asylum. Report of Committee of Classification of Feeble-minded -- Mongols in our midst : John Langdon Down and the ethnic classification of idiocy, 1858-1924 / 'Mongolian imbecility' : race and its rejection in the understanding of a mental disease / Rearing the child who never grew : ideologies of parenting and intellectual disability in American history / The parable of the Kallikak family : explaining the meaning of heredity in 1912 / Fictional voices and viewpoints for the mentally deficient, 1929-1939 / Sexuality and story-telling : literary representations of the 'feeble-minded' in the age of sterilization / David Wright -- Daniel Kevles -- Janice Brockley -- Leila Zenderland -- Gerald Schmidt -- Karen Keely. Defining and categorizing : establishing "the other." The eugenical sterilization of the feeble-minded / The criminalization of mental retardation / The state and the multiply-disadvantaged : the case of epilepsy / The 'sociological advantages' of sterilization: fiscal policies and feebleminded women in interwar Minnesota / Harry Laughlin -- Nicole Rafter -- Ellen Dwyer -- Molly Ladd-Taylor. The age of institutionalization and sterilization. Hope for retarded children / 'Mental deficients' fighting fascism : the unplanned normalization of World War II / Education for children with mental retardation : parent activism, public policy, and family ideology in the 1950s / 'Nice, average Americans' : postwar parents' groups and the defense of the normal family / Formal health care at the community level : the child development clinics of the 1950s and 1960s / A pivotal place in special education policy : the first Arkansas Children's Colony / Eunice Kennedy Shriver -- Stephen A. Gelb -- Kathleen W. Jones -- Katherine Castles -- Wendy M. Nehring -- Elizabeth F. Shores. From top and bottom : parents and the state in the mid-20th century. U.S. Supreme Court decision on capital punishment & mental retardation (2002) -- Historical social geography / The litigator as reformer / No profits, just a pittance : work, compensation, and people defined as mentally disabled in Ontario, 1964-1990 / Family values / Deborah S. Metzel -- David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman -- Geoffrey Reaume -- Michael Berube. The promise and problems of community placement back to a beginning?
The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressions that represent an old, if unstable, history. Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as "idiocy," to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America.
0814782477 9780814782477 0814782485 9780814782484
2003018526
GBA3T6453 bnb GBA432870 bnb
Bitterfeld
Intellectual disability--United States.
Intellectual Disability--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
--
Mental retardation.
Mentale retardatie.
Geistige Behinderung
Geschichte
United States.
United States.
USA.
HV3006.A4 / M435 2004
362.3/0973
2005 J-952 WM 11 AA1 / M549 2004