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James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual or social limitations, has determined their institutional treatment.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 356
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Medicine and Society
Publication Date:
16 March 1994
ISBN: 9780520917279
Format: eBook
