{"product_id":"intellectual-disability-a-conceptual-history-1200-1900-paperback","title":"Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick McDonagh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eC. F. Goodey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTimothy Stainton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores how concepts of intellectual disability evolved from a range of influences, eventually converging with earlier and decidedly distinct ideas, including 'idiocy' and 'folly', which were themselves generated by very specific social and intellectual environments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book brings together essays from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, and extends across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical, and psychiatric histories. Maintaining a rigorous distinction between historical and contemporary concepts, it demonstrates how intellectual disability and related notions were products of the prevailing social, cultural and intellectual environments in which they took form, and also shows how they performed important functions within these environments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century, the collection asks 'how and why did these concepts form?' 'how did they connect with one another?' and 'what historical circumstances contributed to building these connections?' But, while the essays focus on the forces shaping ideas of intelligence and disability, they also address the consequences of these defining forces for the people who found themselves enclosed by the shifting definitional field. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability and social history generally.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick McDonagh is a faculty member in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal and co-founder of the Spectrum Society for Community Living in Vancouver \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eC. F. Goodey is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Stainton is Professor in the School of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52629391343923,"sku":"9781526151643","price":71.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V2s5ek44U29Pb0tRKzlEaXlrbnhqQT09.webp?v=1762127907","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/intellectual-disability-a-conceptual-history-1200-1900-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}