Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200-1900 (Disability History) - Hardcover

Buch 8�von 14: Disability History

9781526125316: Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200-1900 (Disability History)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526125315 ISBN 13: 9781526125316

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2018

Alle Exemplare dieser ISBN-Ausgabe

0 Gebraucht

5 Neu

Von EUR 89,12

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patrick McDonagh is a faculty member in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal and co-founder of the Spectrum Society for Community Living in Vancouver C. F. Goodey is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester Tim Stainton is Professor in the School of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Von der hinteren Coverseite

This collection explores how concepts of intellectual disability evolved from a range of influences, eventually converging with earlier and decidedly distinct ideas, including ‘idiocy’ and ‘folly’, which were themselves generated by very specific social and intellectual environments.

The book brings together essays from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, and extends across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical, and psychiatric histories. Maintaining a rigorous distinction between historical and contemporary concepts, it demonstrates how intellectual disability and related notions were products of the prevailing social, cultural and intellectual environments in which they took form, and also shows how they performed important functions within these environments.

Focusing on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century, the collection asks ‘how and why did these concepts form?’ ‘how did they connect with one another?’ and ‘what historical circumstances contributed to building these connections?’ But, while the essays focus on the forces shaping ideas of intelligence and disability, they also address the consequences of these defining forces for the people who found themselves enclosed by the shifting definitional field.

Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability and social history generally.

��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526125315
ISBN 13: 9781526125316
Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage: 1
Anzahl der Seiten: 274
Herausgeber: McDonagh Patrick, Goodey C. F., Stainton Timothy
Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabr�ck
Niedersachsen
49078
Deutschland