Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States

Trent, James W., Jr.

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ISBN 10: 0520203577 ISBN 13: 9780520203570

Published by Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, 1995

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Title: Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of ...

Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limitations, has determined their institutional treatment.

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James W. Trent, Jr. is Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Gordon College, Wenham Massachusetts. He is also the co-editor of Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader, and the author of The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform.

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