Keyword

feeble-mindedness

Description: An obsolete psychiatric and social term for intellectual disability, historically applied to people considered to have limited intellectual abilities.

Primary topic: Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (25%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q358042

OpenAlex ID: keywords/feeblemindedness

The acquisition of a child by a learning disability

1993 · R. P. McDermott · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 514

The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.

1912 · Henry Herbert Goddard · MacMillan Co eBooks · 389

On the margins of citizenship: intellectual disability and civil rights in twentieth-century America

2010 · Choice Reviews Online · 180

Cognitive Ableism and Disability Studies: Feminist Reflections on the History of Mental Retardation

2001 · Licia Carlson · Hypatia · 149

Measuring minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 145

Encyclopedia of Psychology

1947 · JAMA · 122

Experimental Studies of Rigidity. I. the Measurement of Rigidity in Normal and Feeble-minded Persons*

1941 · J. S. KOUNIN · Journal of Personality · 113

Sterilization versus segregation: Control of the ‘Feebleminded’, 1900–1938

1991 · John P. Radford · Social Science & Medicine · 108

Sterilized by the State

2013 · Randall Hansen, Desmond King · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 102

Sterilizing the “Feeble‐minded”: Eugenics in Alberta, Canada, 1929–1972

2004 · Jana Grekul, Arvey Krahn, et al. · Journal of Historical Sociology · 98

?Beyond the Pale?: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic Sterilization

2007 · Anna Stubblefield · Hypatia · 96

The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

2000 · Mark Jackson · Manchester University Press eBooks · 95

The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness

1913 · H. H. Goddard · The American Journal of Psychology · 95

Feeble-mindedness: its Causes and Consequences

1915 · Nature · 92

Huntington's Chorea in Relation to Heredity and Eugenics

1916 · CHARLES B. DAVENPORT, ELIZABETH B. MUNCEY · American Journal of Psychiatry · 86

Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries

2005 · Kristjana Kristiansen, Rannveig Traustadóttir · Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research · 83

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Social deprivation and rigidity in the performance of feebleminded children.

1961 · Edward Zigler · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 83

The Mental Health Program in Tennessee

1943 · WILLIAM F. ROTH, FRANK H. LUTON · American Journal of Psychiatry · 81

The effect of support and nonsupport on the performance of normal and feebleminded children1

1958 · Edward F. Zigler1, Laurel Hodgden, et al. · Journal of Personality · 79

Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia

2008 · Gregory Michael Dorr · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 78

Steriliseringar i folkhemmet

1998 · Maija Runcis · 77

Disabled rights: American disability policy and the fight for equality

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 76

The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England

1990 · Leon Radzinowicz, Roger G. Hood · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 75

From sinners to degenerates: the medicalization of morality in the 19th century

2002 · Heidi Rimke, Alan Hunt · History of the Human Sciences · 70

Protecting the Social Body: Use of the Organism Metaphor in Fighting the “Menace of the Feebleminded”

1999 · Gerald Vincent O'Brien · Mental Retardation · 70

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Citation count: 8,266