A History of Intelligence and Intellectual Disability: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Author: C. F. Goodey
Institution: University of Leicester
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W865091224