Book ID: CBB273254107

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day (2020)

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Jarrett, Simon (Author)


Reaktion Books


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

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.

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Review Murray K Simpson (2021) Review of "Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day". History of Psychiatry (pp. 505-506). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Chittka, Lars
Walmsley, Jan
Porter, Margaret
Jarrett, Simon
Larose-Dutil, Hubert
Ferretti, Lucia
Concepts
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Intellectual disability
Intelligence
Science and race
Deafness
Teaching; pedagogy
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
France
United States
Great Britain
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
Switzerland
Institutions
United Nations
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