A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' : : The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe.

• Author: Goodey, C. F.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2011.; Ã2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Problematical Intellects in Ancient Greece -- Chapter 1: Ancient Philosophy and the "Worst Disability" -- Chapter 2: Aristotle and the Slave's Intellect -- Part 2: Intelligence and Disability: Socio-economic Structures -- Chapter 3: The Speed of Intelligence: Fast, Slow and Mean -- Chapter 4: Quick Wit and the Ingenious Gentleman -- Part 3: Intelligence and Disability: Status and Power -- Chapter 5: In-group, Out-group: the Place of Intelligence in Anthropology -- Chapter 6: Honour, Grace and Intelligence: the Historical Interplay -- Chapter 7: "Souls Drowned in a Lump of Flesh": the Excluded -- Part 4: Intelligence, Disability and Honour -- Chapter 8: Virtue, Blood, Wit: from Lineage to Learning -- Chapter 9: "Dead in the Very Midst of Life": the Dishonourable and the Idiotic -- Part 5: Intelligence, Disability and Grace -- Chapter 10: From Pilgrim's Progress to Developmental Psychology -- Chapter 11: The Science of Damnation: from Reprobate to Idiot -- Part 6: Fools and Their Medical Histories -- Chapter 12: The Long Historical Context of Cognitive Genetics -- Chapter 13: The Brain of a Fool -- Chapter 14: A First Diagnosis? The Problem with Pioneers -- Part 7: Psychology, Biology and the Ethics of Exceptionalism -- Chapter 15: Philosophy, the Devil and "Special People" -- Chapter 16: The Wrong Child: Changelings and the Bereavement Analogy -- Chapter 17: Testing the Rule of Human Nature: Classification and Abnormality -- Part 8: John Locke and His Successors -- Chapter 18: John Locke and His Successors: the Historical Contingency of Disability -- Works Cited -- Index.