Book ID: CBB000037983

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States (1994)

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Trent, James W., Jr. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xxi + 356 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Friedman, L.J. (1995) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". American Historical Review (pp. 1284-86). unapi

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Review Richardson, J.G. (1997) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". History of Education Quarterly (pp. 329-31). unapi

Review Brockley, J.A. (1999) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". History of Psychology (pp. 25-36). unapi

Review Carson, J. (1995) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Social History of Medicine (pp. 522-23). unapi

Review McGovern, C.M. (1996) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 97-99). unapi

Review Grob, G.N. (1996) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 721-23). unapi

Review Cravens, H. (1995) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 512-13). unapi

Review Larson, E.J. (1996) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 733-34). unapi

Review Samson, C. (1995) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". American Journal of Sociology (pp. 1080-82). unapi

Review Thomson, M. (1995) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". Medical History (pp. 122-23). unapi

Review Porter, R. (1994 (June 10)) Review of "Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 29). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Grob, Gerald N.
Noll, Steven
Baxter, William E.
Bell, Leland V.
Braslow, Joel T.
Dean, Eric T., Jr.
Journals
History of Education Quarterly
Publishers
University of California Press
Cornell University Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press of New England
American Psychiatric Press
Free Press
Concepts
Eugenics
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
British Isles
United States
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