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The Mentally Retarded in Society / Stanley Powell Davies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1959]Copyright date: ©1959Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231937962
  • 9780231895491
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.30973
LOC classification:
  • HV3006.A4 D3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231895491

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)