Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States / Edition 1

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Overview

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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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520203570
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 12/19/1995
  • Series: Medicine and Society Series
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 356
  • Sales rank: 1,008,007
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

James W. Trent, Jr. is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Idiots in America 7
2 Edward Seguin and the Irony of Physiological Education 40
3 The Burden of the Feebleminded 60
4 Living and Working in the Institution, 1890-1920 96
5 The Menace of the Feebleminded 131
6 Sterilization, Parole, and Routinization 184
7 The Remaking of Mental Retardation: Of War, Angels, Parents, and Politicians 225
Epilogue: On Suffering Fools Gladly 269
Notes 279
References 303
Index 347
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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 27, 2001

    Excellent History of Mental Retardation

    James Trent has written a thorough history of the construction of mental retardation in the United States. The book is a must read for educators, historians, and social scientists interested in disability studies.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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