UID:
kobvindex_HPB932061853
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781136772078
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1136772073
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9781136772009
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1136772006
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9781136772146
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1136772146
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; A note on terminology; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; Notes; 2. Exclusion; Outgroups and their boundaries; Inclusion phobia in action; Historical change and 'radical evil'; Beware of ethics; Inclusion phobia, contamination disgust and fear of pollution; Inclusion phobia as false consciousness; Inclusion phobia and the great incarceration; Inclusion phobia and the scapegoat mechanism; Inclusion phobia and experimental verification; Inclusion phobia: the effectiveness of existing approaches; Notes; 3. Intelligence.
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Intelligence and dogmatismIntelligence and scepticism; Intelligence and religious delusion; Intelligence and empire; Intelligence and bureaucracy; Abstraction and logical reasoning: historical contingencies; Intelligence and the consecration of status; Notes; 4. Difference; Ability and disability: chicken or egg?; Social construction and the social model; The social model and the disability movement; The need for a workable historical method; Comparative psychology and the ladder of nature; The ladder of nature: modern rearrangements; Outgroups before modern psychology.
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From categories to cagesLearning disability in the concrete historical totality; Notes; 5. Causes; Eugenics and psychological phenotypes; Magic and natural causes; The Devil as the cause of learning disability; The child you have had or the child you haven't had?; Parental guilt; Notes; 6. Development; Developmental disability and the nature of childhood; Ages means stages: modern developmentalism; The development of 'development'; Development and social history; Notes; 7. Assessment; Morbid rationalism and cognitive ability testing; Morbid rationalism in action.
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Morbid rationalism and rebellionAssessment in history: the beginnings; Assessment in education; Assessment as sanctification; Assessment as the new science of segregation; Assessment by speed; Notes; 8. Autism and its creation; The biological status of autism; Brain imaging; A very recent history; Concept and practice; Autism and its critics; Notes; 9. Autism in context; Autism and totalitarianism; Private thinking; Social interaction; Kindness, sympathy, empathy; Autism and reciprocity; Autism and gender; Learning disability versus autism; Notes; 10. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780415822008
Language:
English
