Eric Kenyon Oral History (interview Code: 39179)
Eric Kenyon Oral History (interview Code: 39179)

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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

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Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a witness of World War II who participated in the liberation of concentration camps or ghettos and/or who entered concentration camps or ghettos immediately after liberation. Includes pre-World War II, wartime, and post-war experience

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Inventing the Feeble Mind

Author: James Trent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199396205

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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.