Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United StatesJames W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limitations, has determined their institutional treatment. |
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Contents
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EDWARD SEGUIN AND THE IRONY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL EDUCATION | 40 |
THE BURDEN OF THE FEEBLEMINDED | 60 |
LIVING AND WORKING IN THE INSTITUTION 18901920 | 96 |
THE MENACE OF THE FEEBLEMINDED | 131 |
STERILIZATION PAROLE AND ROUTINIZATION | 184 |
THE REMAKING OF MENTAL RETARDATION OF WAR ANGELS PARENTS AND POLITICIANS | 225 |
On Suffering Fools Gladly | 269 |
Notes | 279 |
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| Title | Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States Volume 6 of Medicine and Society |
| Author | James W. Trent Jr. |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0520917278, 9780520917279 |
| Length | 356 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / History |
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