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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Stuckey, Zosha, 1971- author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Description:	xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mental retardation facilities -- United States -- History. Mental retardation facilities -- New York (State) -- History. People with mental disabilities -- Education -- United States -- History. Mental retardation facilities patients -- United States -- History. Mental retardation -- United States -- History. Sociology of disability -- United States. Mental retardation. Mental retardation facilities. Mental retardation facilities patients. People with mental disabilities -- Education. Sociology of disability. New York (State) United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10103601

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ISBN:	9781438453019 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1438453019 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School
2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govem(ed) Institutionalization
3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education
4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive
5. Conclusion: Idiocy-An Old, Worn-Out Story
Notes
Bibliography
Index