Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900

✍ Scribed by Patrick McDonagh; C. F. Goodey; Timothy Stainton (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 273
Series: Disability History
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Series editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the emergent critical history of intellectual disability
Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law
‘Will-nots’ and ‘cannots’: tracing a trope in medieval thought
‘Some have it from birth, some by disposition’: foolishness in medieval German literature
Exclusion from the eucharist: the re-shaping of idiocy in the seventeenth-century church
‘A defect in the mind’: cognitive ableism in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability
Peter the ‘Wild Boy’: what Peter means to us
‘Belief’, ‘opinion’, and ‘knowledge’: the idiot in law in the long eighteenth century
Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness
Visiting Earlswood: the asylum travelogue and the shaping of ‘idiocy’
Select bibliography
Index

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