Inventing the feeble mind : a history of mental retardation in the United States /

Half-wits, dunces, dullards, and idiots: though often teased and tormented, the feebleminded were once a part of the community, cared for and protected by family and community members. But in the decade of the 1840s, a group of American physicians and reformers began to view mental retardation as a...

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Main Author: Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Series:Medicine and society ; 6.
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Inventing the feeble mind : a history of mental retardation in the United States by Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995
1st pbk. print.
Format: Book