Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Simon Jarrett

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

Simon Jarrett

304 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today's society. Using evidence from civil and criminal cou...

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