Mental defect

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penrose, L. S. (Lionel Sharples), 1898-1972, author.

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):

People with mental disabilities--United States.

People with mental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Place of Publication:

1934

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:

Chapter XVI, "Treatment in the United States," is not included in the edition published in London, 1933.

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

OCLC:

1477838658