Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Jarrett, Simon

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789143010)

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Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Jarrett, Simon

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

$35.00
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Jarrett, Simon

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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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, to care in today's society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, 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.

Author: Simon Jarrett
ISBN-10: 1789143012
ISBN-13: 9781789143010
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2020
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022
By Simon Jarrett
By Simon Jarrett
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Simon Jarrett is a research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Community Living Magazine.

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