Mental disorder : a brief examination of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, 1954-1957

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolph, C. H. (Cecil Hewitt), 1901-1994, author.

Contributor:

National Association for Mental Health (Great Britain), issuing body.

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):

Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency. Report, 1954-1957.

Great Britain.

Intellectual disability--Great Britain.

Intellectual disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (35 pages).

Place of Publication:

1958

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:

1477838515