Mental illness and mental retardation : message from the President of the United States relative to mental illness and mental retardation

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy)

Series:

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

88th Congress. 1st Session. House of Representatives. Document ; no. 58

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability--United States.

Intellectual disability.

Mental health--United States.

Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 pages).

Place of Publication:

1963

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:

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

OCLC:

1477836853