Guide to the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : containing a legal and general exposition of the act, with suggestions to local authorities, managers and others for the organization and administration of the work dealing with the mental defective

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wormald, John, author.

Wormald, Samuel, 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):

Intellectual disability--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Intellectual disability.

People with mental disabilities--Services for--Great Britain.

People with mental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 145 pages).

Place of Publication:

1913

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:

1477837398