A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / Zosha Stuckey.

  • Stuckey, Zosha, 1971-
Date:
[2014]
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Albany : SUNY Press, State University of New York Press, [2014]

Physical description

xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index.

Contents

Introduction: rhetoric, historical recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- "Confusion into order changed" : the rhetorics that govern(ed) institutionalization -- In pursuit of the active life : the roots, rhetoric, and recursiveness of "special" (all) education -- In pursuit of the under-life of the archive -- Conclusion : "idiocy": an old, worn-out story.

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    History of Medicine
    PT.621.AA8
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  • 9781438453019
  • 1438453019