{"product_id":"intellectual-disability-a-conceptual-history-1200-1900-9781526151643","title":"Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. \u003ci\u003eIntellectual disability \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Intellectual Disability\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and compelling work that traces the concept of “idiocy” or “intellectual disability” across an ambitious time frame while still retaining cohesiveness and strength of argument. The volume makes clear the complexity and fluidity of concepts of intellectual disability in a series of accessible and informative chapters. The book will appeal not only to historians of psychiatry and medicine but also to those with an interest in far broader areas, such as the history of religion, law, and other associated areas.’\u003cbr\u003eIan Miller, University of Ulster, H-Disability January 2019\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: the emergent critical history of intellectual disability – Patrick McDonagh, C. F. Goodey, and Tim Stainton\u003cbr\u003e2 Conceptualization of intellectual disability in medieval English law – Wendy J. Turner\u003cbr\u003e   3 ‘Will-nots’ and ‘Cannots’: tracing a trope in medieval thought – Irina Metzler \u003cbr\u003e4 ‘Some have it from birth, some by disposition’: foolishness in medieval German literature – Janina Dillig\u003cbr\u003e 5 Exclusion from the eucharist: the seventeenth-century church and the creation of ‘intellectually’ disabled people – C. F. Goodey\u003cbr\u003e 6 ‘A defect in the mind’: cognitive ableism in Swift’s \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels – \u003c\/i\u003eD. Christopher Gabbard\u003cbr\u003e 7 The age of sensationalism and the construction of intellectual disability – Tim Stainton\u003cbr\u003e 8 Peter the ‘wild boy’: what Peter means to us – Katie Branch, Clemma Fleat, Nicola Grove, Tim Lumley Smith, and Robin Meader\u003cbr\u003e 9 ‘Belief’, ‘opinion’, and ‘knowledge’: the idiot in law in the the long eighteenth century – Simon Jarrett\u003cbr\u003e 10 Idiocy and the conceptual economy of madness – Murray K. Simpson\u003cbr\u003e 11 Visiting Earlswood: the asylum travelogue and the shaping of ‘idiocy’ – Patrick McDonagh\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041016578391,"sku":"9781526151643","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526151643.jpg?v=1750948610","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intellectual-disability-a-conceptual-history-1200-1900-9781526151643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}