A history of intelligence and "intellectual disability" : : the shaping of psychology in early modern Europe / / C.F. Goodey.

C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as h...

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Notes:"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Problematical intellects in ancient Greece
  • Intelligence and disability : socio-economic structures
  • Intelligence and disability : status and political power
  • Intelligence, disability and honour
  • Intelligence, disability and grace
  • Fools and their medical histories
  • Psychology, biology and the ethics of exceptionalism
  • John Locke and his successors : the historical contingency of disability.