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Intellectual disability

A conceptual history, 1200-1900

edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey & Tim Stainton

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2018
Category
Social History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781526125316
    Publish Date
    Feb 2018
    List Price
    $126.50

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This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. The collection is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Patrick McDonagh is a faculty member in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal and co-founder of the Spectrum Society for Community Living in Vancouver.

C. F. Goodey is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester.

Tim Stainton is Professor in the School of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.