Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States

Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States
ISBN-10
0520917278
ISBN-13
9780520917279
Series
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Category
Medical
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
1994-03-16
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
James W. Trent Jr.

Description

James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limitations, has determined their institutional treatment.

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