Intellectual disability

A conceptual history, 12001900

By: Patrick McDonagh (Editor), C. F. Goodey (Editor), Timothy Stainton (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 January 2018

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274 Pages

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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. -- .

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'Intellectual Disability is an original and compelling work that traces the concept of "idiocy" or "intellectual disability" across an ambitious time frame while still retaining cohesiveness and strength of argument. The volume makes clear the complexity and fluidity of concepts of intellectual disability in a series of accessible and informative chapters. The book will appeal not only to historians of psychiatry and medicine but also to those with an interest in far broader areas, such as the history of religion, law, and other associated areas.'
Ian Miller, University of Ulster, H-Disability January 2019

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