ISBN: 9780198206927

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… More...

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<

ISBN: 9780198206927

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… More...

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<

1998, ISBN: 9780198206927

Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Oxford Historical Monographs., Oxford, England, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA]

1998, ISBN: 0198206925

[EAN: 9780198206927], Neubuch, [PU: OUP Oxford 1998-04-01], Books

1998, ISBN: 9780198206927

Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 1998