Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 / edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonagh, Patrick, editor.

Goodey, C. F., editor.

Stainton, Timothy, 1956- editor.

Series:

Disability history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with mental disabilities--History.

People with mental disabilities.

Developmental disabilities--History.

Developmental disabilities.

Intellectual Disability.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Intellectual Disability.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: the emergent critical history of intellectual disability / Patrick McDonagh McDonagh, Patrick, C. F. Goodey Goodey, C. F., Tim Stainton Stainton, Tim 1

2 Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law / Wendy J. Turner Turner, Wendy J. 26

3 'Will-nots' and 'cannots': tracing a trope in medieval thought / Irina Metzler Metzler, Irina 45

4 'Some have it from birth, some by disposition': foolishness in medieval German literature / Janina Dillig Dillig, Janina 64

5 Exclusion from the eucharist: the re-shaping of idiocy in the seventeenth-century church / C. F. Goodey Goodey, C. F. 80

6 'A defect in the mind': cognitive ableism in Swift's Gulliver's Travels / D. Christopher Gabbard Gabbard, D. Christopher 104

7 Sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability / Tim Stainton Stainton, Tim 128

8 Peter the 'Wild Boy': what Peter means to us / Katie Branch Branch, Katie, Clemma Fleat Fleat, Clemma, Nicola Grove Grove, Nicola, Tim Lumley Smith Smith, Tim Lumley, Robin Meader Meader, Robin 148

9 'Belief, 'opinion', and 'knowledge': the idiot in law in the long eighteenth century / Simon Jarrett Jarrett, Simon 162

10 Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness / Murray K. Simpson Simpson, Murray K. 190

11 Visiting Earlswood: the asylum travelogue and the shaping of 'idiocy' / Patrick McDonagh McDonagh, Patrick 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1526125315

9781526125316

OCLC:

990970131