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Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Before the Asylum | |
A Selection from Report Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1848) | 23 | |
A Thesis on Idiocy | 27 | |
1 | The Legacy of the Almshouse | 40 |
2 | "Beside Her Sat Her Idiot Child": Families and Developmental Disability in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America | 65 |
Pt. II | Defining and Categorizing: Establishing "The Other" | |
Report of Committee on Classification of Feeble-Minded | 87 | |
The New Classification (Tentative) of the Feeble-Minded: Editorial | 89 | |
3 | Mongols in Our Midst: John Langdon Down and the Ethnic Classification of Idiocy, 1858-1924 | 92 |
4 | "Mongolian Imbecility": Race and Its Rejection in the Understanding of a Mental Disease | 120 |
5 | Rearing the Child Who Never Grew: Ideologies of Parenting and Intellectual Disability in American History | 130 |
6 | The Parable of The Kallikak Family: Explaining the Meaning of Heredity in 1912 | 165 |
7 | Fictional Voices and Viewpoints for the Mentally Deficient, 1929-1939 | 186 |
8 | Sexuality and Storytelling: Literary Representations of the "Feebleminded" in the Age of Sterilization | 207 |
Pt. III | The Age of Institutionalization and Sterilization | |
The Eugenical Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded | 225 | |
9 | The Criminalization of Mental Retardation | 232 |
10 | The State and the Multiply Disadvantaged: The Case of Epilesy | 258 |
11 | The "Sociological Advantages" of Sterilization: Fiscal Policies and Feeble-Minded Women in Interwar Minnesota | 281 |
Pt. IV | From Top and Bottom: Parents and the State in the Mid-Twentieth Century | |
Hope for Retarded Children | 303 | |
12 | "Mental Deficients" Fighting Fascism: The Unplanned Normalization of World War II | 308 |
13 | Education for Children with Mental Retardation: Parent Activism, Public Policy, and Family Ideology in the 1950s | 322 |
14 | "Nice, Average Americans": Postwar Parents' Groups and the Defense of the Normal Family | 351 |
15 | Formal Health Care at the Community Level: The Child Development Clinics of the 1950s and 1960s | 371 |
16 | A Pivotal Place in Special Education Policy: The First Arkansas Children's Colony | 384 |
Pt. V | The Promise and Problems of Community Placement: Back to a Beginning? | |
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Capital Punishment and Mental Retardation (2002) | 413 | |
17 | Historical Social Geography | 420 |
18 | The Litigator as Reformer | 445 |
19 | No Profits, Just a Pittance: Work, Compensation, and People Defined as Mentally Disabled in Ontario, 1964-1990 | 466 |
20 | Family Values | 494 |
About the Contributors | 501 | |
Index | 505 |
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