Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900 (Disability History)

Synopsis

This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. The collection is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781526125330

Related ISBNs:

9781526151643, 9781526125323, 9781526125316

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Date of Addition:

11/01/24

Copyrighted By:

Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Social Studies, Medicine

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Patrick McDonagh

Edited by:

C. F. Goodey

Edited by:

Timothy Stainton