Inventing the feeble mind a history of intellectual disability in the United States /

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 Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedn...

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Main Author: Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Physical Description: xxii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: [Second edition].
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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor

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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor HV3006.A4 T74 2017 Available
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