This is the first detailed assessment of the development and implementation of social policy to deal with the problem of the `mentally deficient'' in Britain between 1870 and 1959. Mathew… Plus…
This is the first detailed assessment of the development and implementation of social policy to deal with the problem of the `mentally deficient'' in Britain between 1870 and 1959. Mathew Thomson analyses all the factors involved in the policy-making process, beginning with the politics of thelegislature and showing how the demands of central government were interpreted by local authorities, resulting in a wide and varied distribution of medical, institutional, and community care in different parts of the country. The efforts of health professionals, voluntary organizations and thefamilies themselves are considered, alongside questions about the influence of changing concepts of class, gender, and citizenship. The author queries the belief that the policy of segregation was largely unsuccessful, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized system of care in the community. He reframesour understanding of the campaign for sterilization and examines why British policy-makers avoided extremist measures such as the compulsory sterilization introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period. Thomson shows that the problem of mental deficiency cannot be understood simply interms of eugenics but must also be considered as part of the process of adjusting to democracy in the twentieth century. | The Problem of Mental Deficiency by Mathew Thomson Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History P10103, Mathew Thomson<
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Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], This volume studies the alarm about 'mental defectives' in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the policies of segregation, community care,and sexu… Plus…
Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], This volume studies the alarm about 'mental defectives' in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the policies of segregation, community care,and sexual sterilization. It examines the origins of these central government policies, showing how they were practiced by health professionals and local authorities. In the OXFORD HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS series., Disability: Social Aspects<
Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Oxford Historical Monographs., Oxford, England, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA]
Mathew Thomson, Matthew Thomson: The Problem of Mental Deficiency Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959: Eugenics and Social Policy in Britain, C.1870-1959 (Oxford Historical Monographs) - edition reliée, livre de poche
This is the first detailed assessment of the development and implementation of social policy to deal with the problem of the `mentally deficient'' in Britain between 1870 and 1959. Mathew… Plus…
This is the first detailed assessment of the development and implementation of social policy to deal with the problem of the `mentally deficient'' in Britain between 1870 and 1959. Mathew Thomson analyses all the factors involved in the policy-making process, beginning with the politics of thelegislature and showing how the demands of central government were interpreted by local authorities, resulting in a wide and varied distribution of medical, institutional, and community care in different parts of the country. The efforts of health professionals, voluntary organizations and thefamilies themselves are considered, alongside questions about the influence of changing concepts of class, gender, and citizenship. The author queries the belief that the policy of segregation was largely unsuccessful, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized system of care in the community. He reframesour understanding of the campaign for sterilization and examines why British policy-makers avoided extremist measures such as the compulsory sterilization introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period. Thomson shows that the problem of mental deficiency cannot be understood simply interms of eugenics but must also be considered as part of the process of adjusting to democracy in the twentieth century. | The Problem of Mental Deficiency by Mathew Thomson Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History P10103, Mathew Thomson<
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Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], This volume studies the alarm about 'mental defectives' in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the policies of segregation, community care,and sexu… Plus…
Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], This volume studies the alarm about 'mental defectives' in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the policies of segregation, community care,and sexual sterilization. It examines the origins of these central government policies, showing how they were practiced by health professionals and local authorities. In the OXFORD HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS series., Disability: Social Aspects<
Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Oxford Historical Monographs., Oxford, England, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA]
Mathew Thomson, Matthew Thomson: The Problem of Mental Deficiency Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959: Eugenics and Social Policy in Britain, C.1870-1959 (Oxford Historical Monographs) - edition reliée, livre de poche
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This is the first full study of the great alarm about "mental defectives" in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of segregation, community care, and sexual sterilization. Mathew Thomson examines the origins of these policies in central government and shows how they were put into practice by health professionals and local authorities. He reveals how policy-makers avoided extremist measures such as compulsory sterilization (introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period), not for reasons of liberal principle but because of the socially conservative and anti-interventionlist nature of British political culture.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780198206927 ISBN (ISBN-10): 0198206925 Version reliée Date de parution: 1998 Editeur: Mathew Thomson 368 Pages Poids: 0,590 kg Langue: eng/Englisch
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ISBN - Autres types d'écriture: 0-19-820692-5, 978-0-19-820692-7 Autres types d'écriture et termes associés: Auteur du livre: thomson Titre du livre: democracy britain, 1959, eugenic policy, oxford history eugenics, historical britain, eugenics then now, 1870, the problem democracy, the social problem mental deficiency
