History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe

Goodey, C.F.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

392

Mole

9781032920696

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Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Problematical Intellects in Ancient Greece: Ancient philosophy and the 'worst disability'; Aristotle and the slave's intellect. Part 2 Intelligence and Disability: Socio-Economic Structures: The speed of intelligence: fast, slow and mean; Quick wit and the ingenious gentleman. Part 3 Intelligence and Disability: Status and Power: In-group and out-group: the place of intelligence in anthropology; Honour, grace and intelligence: the historical interplay; 'Souls drowned in a lump of flesh': the excluded. Part 4 Intelligence, Disability and Honour: Virtue, blood, wit: from lineage to learning; 'Dead in the very midst of life': the dishonourable and the idiotic. Part 5 Intelligence, Disability and Grace: From pilgrim's progress to developmental psychology; The science of damnation: from reprobate to idiot. Part 6 Fools and Their Medical Histories: The long historical context of cognitive genetics; The brain of a fool; A first diagnosis? The problem with pioneers. Part 7 Psychology, Biology and the Ethics of Exceptionalism: Philosophy, the devil and 'special people'; The wrong child: changelings and the bereavement analogy; Testing the rule of human nature: classification and abnormality. Part 8 John Locke and his Successors: the historical contingency of disability; Works cited; Index.
Intellectual Disability;Rational Soul;faculty;Honour Society;psychology;Young Man;honour;Galton;society;Soul Spirits;rational;Civic Intellect;soul;Natural Grace;civic;Heraldic Science;natural;Cognitive Genetics;graces;Make Up;animal;DNA String;Nominal Essences;Behavioural Phenotype;Bidding Mode;Fast Model;Grotius;Hugo Grotius;Ancient Greece;Early Modern Medicine;Wet Nurses;Ultimate Ignorance;Creaturely Equality;Wild Men;Lambdoid Suture;abnormality;anthropology;Aristotle;bereavement analogy;damnation;developmental psychology;early modern Europe;exceptionalism;historical contingency;human intelligence;John Locke;medical histories;pilgrim's progress;problematical intellects;slave's intellect;socio-economic structures