From Idiocy To Mental Deficiency
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From Idiocy To Mental Deficiency
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Author : Anne Digby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-09
From Idiocy To Mental Deficiency written by Anne Digby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-09 with History categories.
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.
From Idiocy To Mental Deficiency
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Author : Anne Digby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-09
From Idiocy To Mental Deficiency written by Anne Digby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-09 with History categories.
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.
Madness To Mental Illness
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Author : Thomas Bewley
language : en
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Release Date : 2008-07
Madness To Mental Illness written by Thomas Bewley and has been published by RCPsych Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with History categories.
This readable text presents the long-awaited first comprehensive history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists as an organisation, from its creation as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1841, its development through various name changes and the receipt of two charters, to become the present Royal College as we know it today. As a former President of the College from 1984-7, Dr Bewley also gives an overview of the fascinating developments in British psychiatry and its sub-specialties over the past two centuries. Further, more specific activities are also detailed, such as the formation of the research unit, the College publishing programme of journals and books, and the growth in facilities now provided including the library and information service. The book contains a collection of photographs in a glossy centre section.
Those They Called Idiots
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Author : Simon Jarrett
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2025-04-12
Those They Called Idiots written by Simon Jarrett and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-12 with History categories.
Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England, to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.
Idiocy Imbecility And Insanity In Victorian Society
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Author : Stef Eastoe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Idiocy Imbecility And Insanity In Victorian Society written by Stef Eastoe and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with History categories.
This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.
Learning Disabilities
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Author : Bob Gates
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Learning Disabilities written by Bob Gates and has been published by Elsevier Health Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Medical categories.
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is the authoritative textbook for students of learning disabilities covering a wide variety of topics. It is relevant not only for nursing courses, but also for care workers, OTs, and other professional and non-professional carers. The new edition has been completely updated and includes the latest evidence for practice. There are new chapters which means the book provides comprehensive coverage of learning disablities throughout a person's life. There are also new contributors, including people with learning disabilities. Each chapter is supported by information on further reading and other resources.
Mental Disability In Victorian England
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Author : David Wright
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-10-04
Mental Disability In Victorian England written by David Wright and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-04 with History categories.
This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it investigates the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came. By concentrating on the importance of patient-centred admission documents, and utilizing the benefits of nominal record linkage to other, non-medical sources, David Wright extends research on the confinement of the 'insane' to the networks of care and control that operated outside the walls of the asylum. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care. In this book, the family plays a significant role in the history of the asylum, initiating the identification of mental disability, participating in the certification process, mediating medical treatment, and facilitating discharge back into the community. By exploring the patterns of confinement to the Earlswood Asylum, Professor Wright reveals the diversity of the 'insane' population in Victorian England and the complexities of institutional committal in the nineteenth century. Moreover, by investigating the evolution of the Earlswood Asylum, it examines the history of the institution where John Langdon Down made his now famous identification of 'Mongolism', later renamed Down's Syndrome. He thus places the formulation of this archetype of mental disability within its historical, cultural, and scientific contexts.
Idiocy
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Author : Patrick McDonagh
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Idiocy written by Patrick McDonagh and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In ancient Athens, “idiots” were those selfish citizens who dishonorably declined to participate in the life of the polis, and whose disavowal of the public interest was seen as poor taste and an indication of judgment. Over time, however, the term idiot has shifted from that philosophically uncomplicated definition to an ever-changing sociological signifier, encompassing a wide range of meanings and beliefs for those concerned with intellectual and cognitive disability. Idiocy: A Cultural History offers for the first time a analysis of the concept, drawing on cultural, sociological, scientific, and popular representations ranging from Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge to Down’s “Ethnic classification of idiots.” It tracks how our changing definition of idiocy intersects with demography, political movements, philosophical traditions, economic concerns, and the growth of the medical profession.
On Idiocy And Imbecility
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Author : William Wotherspoon Ireland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
On Idiocy And Imbecility written by William Wotherspoon Ireland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Electronic books categories.
Idiocy
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Author : Patrick McDonagh
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Idiocy written by Patrick McDonagh and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In ancient Athens, “idiots” were those selfish citizens who dishonorably declined to participate in the life of the polis, and whose disavowal of the public interest was seen as poor taste and an indication of judgment. Over time, however, the term idiot has shifted from that philosophically uncomplicated definition to an ever-changing sociological signifier, encompassing a wide range of meanings and beliefs for those concerned with intellectual and cognitive disability. Idiocy: A Cultural History offers for the first time a analysis of the concept, drawing on cultural, sociological, scientific, and popular representations ranging from Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge to Down’s “Ethnic classification of idiots.” It tracks how our changing definition of idiocy intersects with demography, political movements, philosophical traditions, economic concerns, and the growth of the medical profession.