Feeble-Minded in Our Midst

by Steven Noll

• ISBN13: 9780807822203
• ISBN10: 0807822205
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-06-15
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Summary

Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions throughout the South and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. He also examines the composition of the population labeled feeble-minded and demonstrates a relationship between demographic variables and institutional placement, including their effect on the determination of a patient's degree of disability.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introducton	p. 1
From Neglect to Control the Opening of Institutions in the South	p. 11
The Establishment of a National Profession Mental Retardation, 1900-1940	p. 27
Southern Institutions in a Wider World	p. 47
The Promise of Sterilization	p. 65
Under a Double Burden Feeble-Minded Blacks in the South	p. 89
The Multiple Functions of Southern Institutions	p. 105
Internal Dynamics Demographics and Mental Levels in Southern Institutions	p. 125
Internal Dynamics Staffing and Schooling in Southern Institutions	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 155
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 247
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