Those They Called Idiots
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
9781836390718 (ISBN)
Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.
Simon Jarrett is a writer and historian specializing in the history of disability. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Open University and author of A History of Disability in England: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day (2023). He also writes about people with learning disabilities and the arts for Community Living magazine. He is Chair of Corali Dance Company, a leader in dance created by people with learning disabilities.
Introduction
Part One: Idiocy and Imbecility in the Eighteenth Century, c.
1700-1812
1 Poor Foolish Lads and Weak Easy Girls: Legal Ideas of Idiocy
2 Billy-noodles and Bird-wits: Cultural Ideas of Idiocy
3 Idiots Abroad: Racial Ideas of Idiocy
Part Two: New Ways of Thinking, 1812-1870
4 Medical Challenge: New Ideas in the Courtroom
5 Pity and Loathing: New Cultural Thinking
6 Colonies, Anthropologists and Asylums: Race and Intelligence
7 Into the Idiot Asylum: The Great Incarceration
Part Three: From Eugenics to Care in the Community, 1870 to the Present
Day
8 After Darwin: Mental Deficiency, Eugenics and Psychology, 1870-1939
9 Back to the Community? 1939 to the Present
References
Selected Secondary Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 62 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781836390718 / 9781836390718 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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