Download Free Proceedings Of The Association Of Medical Officers Of American Institutions For Idiotic And Feeble Minded Persons Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Proceedings Of The Association Of Medical Officers Of American Institutions For Idiotic And Feeble Minded Persons and write the review.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.