num_pages: 356
description: 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.
language: English
title: Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States
titlecomplete: Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Medicine and Society)
genres: Horror, Social Issues, Research, History, Disability, Science, Mental Illness, Psychology, Disability Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 59
publisher: University of California Press