A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / Zosha Stuckey.
- Stuckey, Zosha, 1971-
- Date:
- [2014]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Albany : SUNY Press, State University of New York Press, [2014]
Physical description
xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Introduction: rhetoric, historical recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- "Confusion into order changed" : the rhetorics that govern(ed) institutionalization -- In pursuit of the active life : the roots, rhetoric, and recursiveness of "special" (all) education -- In pursuit of the under-life of the archive -- Conclusion : "idiocy": an old, worn-out story.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index.
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Subjects
- Intellectual disability facilitiesUnited StatesHistory
- Intellectual disability facilitiesNew York (State)History
- People with mental disabilitiesEducationUnited StatesHistory
- Intellectual disability facilities patientsUnited StatesHistory
- Intellectual disabilityUnited StatesHistory
- Sociology of disabilityUnited States.
- Education of Intellectually Disabledhistory
- History, 19th Century
- Persons with Mental Disabilitiespsychology
- Schoolshistory
- New York (State)
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePT.621.AA8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781438453019
- 1438453019