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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' book

The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe

A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

DOI link for A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' book

The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
ByC.F. Goodey
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 16 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564838
Pages 392 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315564838
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
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Goodey, C. (2011). A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564838

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed to them. From the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onset of formal human science disciplines in the modern era, A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' reconstructs the socio-political and religious contexts of intellectual ability and disability, and demonstrates how these concepts became part of psychology, medicine and biology. Goodey examines a wide array of classical, late medieval and Renaissance texts, from popular guides on conduct and behavior to medical treatises and from religious and philosophical works to poetry and drama. Focusing especially on the period between the Protestant Reformation and 1700, Goodey challenges the accepted wisdom that would have us believe that 'intelligence' and 'disability' describe natural, trans-historical realities. Instead, Goodey argues for a model that views intellectual disability and indeed the intellectually disabled person as recent cultural creations. His book is destined to become a standard resource for scholars interested in the history of psychology and medicine, the social origins of human self-representation, and current ethical debates about the genetics of intelligence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part 1 Problematical Intellects in Ancient Greece

chapter 1|10 pages

Ancient Philosophy and the “Worst Disability”

chapter 2|12 pages

Aristotle and the Slave’s Intellect

part |2 pages

Part 2 Intelligence and Disability: Socio-economic Structures

chapter 3|10 pages

The Speed of Intelligence: Fast, Slow and Mean

chapter 4|12 pages

Quick Wit and the Ingenious Gentleman

part |2 pages

Part 3 Intelligence and Disability: Status and Power

chapter 5|14 pages

In-group, Out-group: the Place of Intelligence in Anthropology

chapter 6|16 pages

Honour, Grace and Intelligence: the Historical Interplay

chapter 7|8 pages

“Souls Drowned in a Lump of Flesh”: the Excluded

part |2 pages

Part 4 Intelligence, Disability and Honour

chapter 8|22 pages

Virtue, Blood, Wit: from Lineage to Learning

chapter 9|24 pages

“Dead in the Very Midst of Life”: the Dishonourable and the Idiotic

part |2 pages

Part 5 Intelligence, Disability and Grace

chapter 10|28 pages

From Pilgrim’s Progress to Developmental Psychology

chapter 11|26 pages

The Science of Damnation: from Reprobate to Idiot

part |2 pages

Part 6 Fools and Their Medical Histories

chapter 12|12 pages

The Long Historical Context of Cognitive Genetics

chapter 13|16 pages

The Brain of a Fool

chapter 14|16 pages

A First Diagnosis? The Problem with Pioneers

part |2 pages

Part 7 Psychology, Biology and the Ethics of Exceptionalism

chapter 15|8 pages

Philosophy, the Devil and “Special People”

chapter 16|20 pages

The Wrong Child: Changelings and the Bereavement Analogy

chapter 17|30 pages

Testing the Rule of Human Nature: Classification and Abnormality

part |2 pages

Part 8 John Locke and His Successors

chapter 18|34 pages

John Locke and His Successors: the Historical Contingency of Disability

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