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Half-wits, dunces, dullards, and idiots: though often teased and tormented, the feebleminded were once a part of the community, cared for and protected by family and community members. But in the decade of the 1840s, a group of American physicians and reformers began to view mental retardation as a social problem requiring public intervention. For the next century and a

Title : Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Author : James W. Trent
Language : en
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