Title Inventing the feeble mind : a history of mental retardation in the United States / James W. Trent, Jr

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994] ©1994

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Description xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Medicine and society ; 6 Medicine and society ; 6 Contents 1. Idiots in America -- 2. Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education -- 3. The Burden of the Feebleminded -- 4. Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920 -- 5. The Menace of the Feebleminded -- 6. Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization -- 7. The Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of War, Angels, Parents, and Politicians -- Epilogue: On Suffering Fools Gladly Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-345) and index Subject Intellectual disability -- United States -- History. People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- United States -- History. People with mental disabilities -- United States -- History. Institutionalization -- history. Intellectual Disability -- history. Social Conditions -- history. SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 LC no. 93032239 ISBN 0520082435 (alk. paper) 0520203577 (paperback)

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