The Mentally Retarded in Society / / Stanley Powell Davies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Davies, Stanley Powell,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ecob, Katharine G.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1959]; ©1959
• Year of Publication: 1959
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part One: Historical background --; I. The Social Test of Mentality --; II. From Sorcery to Science --; III. Seguin and American Beginnings --; IV. An Invention and a Discovery --; V. Eugenic Alarms --; VI. The Social Indictment --; VII. Sterilization --; VIII. Segregation --; IX. Defective Delinquents --; X. Changing Concepts of Causation --; XI. New Light on Behavior --; Part Two: Modern Programs: Rehabilitation --; XII. The Modern Institution --; XIII. Colonies --; XIV. Family Care --; XV. Community Programs --; XVI. The Challenge to the Schools --; XVII. Vocational Training and employment --; XVIII. The Socializing Process --; XIX. The Mentally Retarded in the Social Order --; Selected Bibliography --; Permissions --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231895491; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/davi93796
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stanley Powell Davies.

Presents mental disabilities in their social rather than clinical aspects. It aims to show how phases of public opinion and action have followed the evolution of scientific knowledge.