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

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900 (Disability History). To get started finding Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900 (Disability History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900 (Disability History). To get started finding Intellectual disability: A conceptual history, 1200–1900 (Disability History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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