A History of Intelligence and 'intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe

A History of Intelligence and 'intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10
1409420213
ISBN-13
9781409420217
Category
Psychology
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
C. F. Goodey

Description

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.

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