The Mentally Retarded in Society / Stanley Powell Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Stanley P., author.

Contributor:

Ecob, Katharine G.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1959]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents mental disabilities in their social rather than clinical aspects. It aims to show how phases of public opinion and action have followed the evolution of scientific knowledge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part One: Historical background

I. The Social Test of Mentality

II. From Sorcery to Science

III. Seguin and American Beginnings

IV. An Invention and a Discovery

V. Eugenic Alarms

VI. The Social Indictment

VII. Sterilization

VIII. Segregation

IX. Defective Delinquents

X. Changing Concepts of Causation

XI. New Light on Behavior

Part Two: Modern Programs: Rehabilitation

XII. The Modern Institution

XIII. Colonies

XIV. Family Care

XV. Community Programs

XVI. The Challenge to the Schools

XVII. Vocational Training and employment

XVIII. The Socializing Process

XIX. The Mentally Retarded in the Social Order

Selected Bibliography

Permissions

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89549-6

OCLC:

1100464096