From idiocy to mental deficiency historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities (Routledge, 1996)
Based on a conference sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, held in London in 1992
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Contexts and perspectives / Anne Digby -- 2. Mental handicap in medieval and early modern England : criteria, measurement and care / Richard Neugebauer -- 3. Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England / Peter Rushton -- 4. Identifying and providing for the mentally disabled in early modern London / Jonathan Andrews -- 5. the psychopolitics of learning and disability in seventeenth-century thought / C.F. Goodey -- 6. "Childlike in his innocence" : lay attitudes to "idiots" and "imbeciles" in Victorian England / David Wright -- 7. The changing dynamic of institutional care : the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1864-1914 / David Gladstone -- 8. Institutional provision for the feeble-minded in Edwardian England : Sandlebridge and the scientific morality of permanent care / Mark Jackson -- 9. Girls, deficiency and delinquency / Pamela Cox -- 10. Family, community, and the state : the micro-politics of mental deficiency / Mathew Thomson