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1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in the social history of medicine
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Note |
Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Contexts and perspectives / Anne Digby -- 2. Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England : criteria, measurement and care / Richard Neugebauer -- 3. Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England / Peter Rushton -- 4. Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London / Jonathan Andrews -- 5. the psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought / C.F. Goodey -- 6. "Childlike in his innocence" : lay attitudes to "idiots" and "imbeciles" in Victorian England / David Wright -- 7. The changing dynamic of institutional care : the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864-1914 / David Gladstone -- 8. Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England : Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent care / Mark Jackson -- 9. Girls, deficiency and delinquency / Pamela Cox -- 10. Family, community, and the state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency / Mathew Thomson. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
People with mental disabilities -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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People with mental disabilities. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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People with mental disabilities -- Care -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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People with mental disabilities -- Care. |
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Learning disabled -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Learning disabled. |
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Persons with Mental Disabilities. |
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Learning Disabilities. |
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United Kingdom. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Wright, David, 1965-
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Digby, Anne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: From idiocy to mental deficiency. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 041511215X (DLC) 95026616 (OCoLC)33900060 |
| ISBN |
0203162242 (electronic book) |
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9780203162248 (electronic book) |
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9780415112154 |
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041511215X |
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