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1 online resource. |
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Disability history
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Disability history.
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| Summary |
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the emergent critical history of intellectual disability / Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton -- Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law / Wendy J. Turner -- 'Will-nots' and 'cannots' : tracing a trope in medieval thought / Irina Metzler -- 'Some have it from birth, some by disposition' : foolishness in medieval German literature / Janina Dillig -- Exclusion from the eucharist : the re-shaping of idiocy in the seventeenth-century church / C.F. Goodey -- 'A defect in the mind' : cognitive ableism in Swift's Gulliver's Travels / D. Christopher Gabbard -- Sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability / Tim Stainton -- Peter the 'Wild Boy' : what Peter means to us / Katie Branch, Clemma Fleat, Nicola Grove, Tim Lumley Smith, and Robin Meader -- 'Belief', 'opinion', and 'knowledge' : the idiot in law in the long eighteenth century / Simon Jarrett -- Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness /Murray K. Simpson -- Visiting Earlswood : the asylum travelogue and the shaping of 'idiocy' / Patrick McDonagh. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intellectual disability -- History.
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Intellectual disability. |
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History. |
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Intellectual disability in literature.
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Intellectual disability in literature. |
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Intellectual disability -- Social aspects.
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Intellectual disability -- Social aspects. |
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Intellectual disability -- Religious aspects.
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Intellectual disability -- Religious aspects. |
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Developmental disabilities -- Psychological aspects.
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Developmental disabilities -- Psychological aspects. |
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Developmental disabilities. |
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Intellectual disability -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Intellect -- History.
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Intellect. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
McDonagh, Patrick, editor.
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Goodey, C. F., editor.
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Stainton, Timothy, 1956- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781526125316 |
| ISBN |
9781526125330 (electronic book) |
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1526125331 (electronic book) |
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9781526125323 (electronic book) |
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1526125323 (electronic book) |
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9781526136213 (electronic book) |
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152613621X (electronic book) |
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9781526125316 (hardback) |
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1526125315 |
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