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Zusatztext A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 'The publication of A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' constitutes a major event. Anyone interested in psychology! philosophy! ethics! and English literature! as well as medieval! early modern! eighteenth-century! and disability studies should take note of it. Twenty years of research went into this book! which presents a history of ideas ranging from the ancient Greeks to the current period. It is thorough! rigorous! comprehensive! and painstaking in its analysis while also being simultaneously measured and provocative in its conclusions. With regard to disability studies! I suggest that this book ranks among its best scholarship. I further suggest that this is the MOST significant book coming out of disability studies to focus exclusively on intellectual disability... More importantly! no other study exists (that I know of at least) that goes to the tremendous lengths (breadth! depth! complexity! layering! self-questioning) that this one does! and so successfully. In terms of style! Goodey knows his way around a metaphor and at times can be humorous. The writing alone makes this an enjoyable read.' Chris Gabbard! Department of English! University of North Florida 'This superb interdisciplinary study analyzes a wide range of texts from antique philosophy! religion! medicine! and psychology! to show how the history of disability is intertwined with that of social and cultural formations. A must read for all who want to know how their own discipline organized the world of understanding in a way that made some human beings invisible at best! and despicable at worst.' Hans Reinders! VU University! Amsterdam 'Goodey shows the influence of social! political! and religious factors that shaped the pre-modern and early modern views of intelligence and of lack-of-intelligence. In so doing! he has created a magisterial work - one that should be read by historians! sociologists! policy makers! and students of Informationen zum Autor C.F. Goodey has researched and published on the history of 'intellectual disability', including the ethical and social implications of the concept, for more than 20 years. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including History of Science, Medical History, History of the Human Sciences, Political Theory and Ancient Philosophy. He formerly held teaching and research posts at Ruskin College, Oxford, the Open University and the University of London Institute of Education, and is currently an independent consultant working for national and local government services on learning disability in the UK. Klappentext Autism, Down syndrome, and other such labels assume that 'intellectual disability' is a permanent aspect of human nature. C.F. Goodey demonstrates that intellectual disability and even intelligence are instead historically contingent creations, which are rooted in early modern cultural and religious matrices and corresponding forms of social organisation, and which have subsequently undergone continuous change. This paradigm-shifting book is also an urgent and compassionate appeal for us to consider, through the prism of history, how the apparent certainties of modern biology, medicine and psychology came to question the ethical status of some of us. Zusammenfassung Starting with the controversial hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, this title traces the interplay between human types and the characteristics attributed to them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Problematical Intellects in Ancient Greece: Ancient philosophy and the 'worst disability'; Aristotle and the slave's intellect. Part 2 Intelligence and Disability: Socio-Economic Structures: The speed of intelligence: fast, slow and mean; Quick wit and the ingenious gentlem...
