Insane and feeble-minded in hospitals and institutions 1904

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Bureau of the Census.

Contributor:

Koren, John, 1861-1923, contributor.

King, William Alexander, 1855-1906, contributor.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylums--United States.

Asylums.

Intellectual disability--United States.

Intellectual disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 232 pages).

Place of Publication:

1906

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

At head of title: Department of commerce and labor. Bureau of the census. S. N. D. North, director. Special reports.

Investigation made under the direction of John Koren.

Data collected and compiled under the direction of the late William A. King, chief statistician for vital statistics.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477835079