Mental Retardation in America - A Historical Reader

Informationen zum Autor Steven Noll is Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is also an adaptive technology teacher for students with special needs in the Gainesville, Florida public schools. He is the author of Feeble-Minded in our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South. James W. Trent is Professor and Director of the Master of Social Work Program at Southern Illinois University, and the author of the award-winning Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Klappentext A collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment! labeling! and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Corwin, Steven (EDT)/ Trent Noll, James W. Trent
• Assisted by: Steven Noll (Editor), James Trent (Editor), James W. Trent (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780814782484
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8248-4
• Series: History of Disability (Paperba; The History of Disability
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous