Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 /

Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 / edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, Timothy Stainton. - 1 online resource - Disability history . - Disability history. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-254) and index.

Introduction : the emergent critical history of intellectual disability / Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton -- Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law / Wendy J. Turner -- 'Will-nots' and 'cannots' : tracing a trope in medieval thought / Irina Metzler -- 'Some have it from birth, some by disposition' : foolishness in medieval German literature / Janina Dillig -- Exclusion from the eucharist : the re-shaping of idiocy in the seventeenth-century church / C.F. Goodey -- 'A defect in the mind' : cognitive ableism in Swift's Gulliver's Travels / D. Christopher Gabbard -- Sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability / Tim Stainton -- Peter the 'Wild Boy' : what Peter means to us / Katie Branch, Clemma Fleat, Nicola Grove, Tim Lumley Smith, and Robin Meader -- 'Belief', 'opinion', and 'knowledge' : the idiot in law in the long eighteenth century / Simon Jarrett -- Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness /Murray K. Simpson -- Visiting Earlswood : the asylum travelogue and the shaping of 'idiocy' / Patrick McDonagh.

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.

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Intellectual disability--History.
Intellectual disability in literature.
Intellectual disability--Social aspects.
Intellectual disability--Religious aspects.
Developmental disabilities--Psychological aspects.
Intellectual disability--Philosophy.
Intellect--History.
Intellectual disability.
Intellectual Disability
Déficience intellectuelle--Histoire.
Déficience intellectuelle dans la littérature.
Déficience intellectuelle--Aspect social.
Troubles du développement--Aspect psychologique.
Déficience intellectuelle--Philosophie.
Intelligence--Histoire.
Déficience intellectuelle.
intellectual disability.
44.01 history of medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY--Social History.
Developmental disabilities--Psychological aspects.
Intellect.
Intellectual disability.
Intellectual disability in literature.
Intellectual disability--Religious aspects.
Intellectual disability--Social aspects.
Déficience intellectuelle--Histoire.--Europe
Médecine--Philosophie.
Psychiatrie et philosophie.
Déficience intellectuelle--Aspect social.
Malades mentaux--Et la littérature.
Utvecklingsstörning--i litteraturen.
Utvecklingsstörning--psykologiska aspekter.
Utvecklingsstörning--religiösa aspekter.
Utvecklingsstörning--sociala aspekter.
Utvecklingsstörning--historia.


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