Inventing the Feeble Mind PDF book is popular Medical book written by James W. Trent Jr.. The book was released by Univ of California Press on 1994-03-16 with total hardcover pages 402. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W. Trent Jr. in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation ove
Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy,
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Fee
Trent contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people and their families, more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limita
The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressi
