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Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900 / edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey, Timothy Stainton.

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Manchester University Press, 2018.

Intellectual disability in literature.

Intellectual disability -- History.

Intellectual disability -- Social aspects.

Intellectual disability -- Religious aspects.

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

9781526151643 (pbk.)

258 p. ; 22 cm.

Patrick McDonagh is a faculty member in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal and co-founder of the Spectrum Society for Community Living in Vancouver ; C. F. Goodey is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Medical Humanities at the Universityof Leicester ; Tim Stainton is Professor in the School of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at the Universityof British Columbia, Vancouver.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-254) and index.

"This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally."--Barnes&Noble.

McDonagh, Patrick.

Stainton, Timothy, 1956-

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