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.