Books by "W Charles Benedict"

6 books found

Index to New York in the Spanish-American war

Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind

by James W. Trent (Jr.)

2017 · Oxford University Press

Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability.

Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind

by James W. Trent

1995 · Univ of California Press

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.

The Works of Irving Fisher Vol 14

The Works of Irving Fisher Vol 14

by William J Barber, James Tobin, Robert W Dimand, Kevin Foster

2024 · Taylor & Francis

This 14-volume edition contains the key works and commentary by leading Fisher scholars, allowing modern readers access to the major issues in Fisherian economic thought.