Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot 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...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day