WebbSimon Jarrett has written a remarkable history of mental disability in England (with some evidence from France and the United States) from 1700 to the early twenty-first century. … WebbThe item Those they called idiots : the idea of the disabled mind from 1700 to the present day, Simon Jarrett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.

Jarrett, Simon. Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled …

Webb11 nov. 2024 · Simon Jarrett is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of ‘Those They Called idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day’, Reaktion Books, 2024. Notes WebbSimon Jarrett (Author of The Those They Called Idiots) Discover new books on Goodreads See if your friends have read any of Simon Jarrett's books Join Goodreads Simon … canopy learning center

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WebbSimon Jarrett. Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. 304 pp. $35.00, cloth, ISBN 978-1-78914 … WebbThose They Called Idiots reads like a history of mental alterity from an ethnocentric social worker: on the ground case studies, overly focused on British experience, little theorizing, … WebbThose 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 and care in today's society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of … flair of pain