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Modernity and the appearance of idiocy: intellectual disability as a regime of truth

Modernity and the appearance of idiocy: intellectual disability as a regime of truth, by Murray K. Simpson, Lewiston, NY, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014, 160 pp., £139.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-773-44289-4

References

  • Foucault, M. 1989. The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
  • Simpson, M. 2007a. “Developmental Concept of Idiocy.” Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 45 (1): 23–32.10.1352/1934-9556(2007)45[23:DCOI]2.0.CO;2
  • Simpson, M. K. 2007b. “From Savage to Citizen: Education, Colonialism and Idiocy.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 28 (5): 561–574.10.1080/01425690701505326
  • Simpson, M. 2009. “Séguin, Edouard.” In Encyclopedia of American Disability History, edited by S. Burch. Facts on File library of American history, Facts on File.
  • Simpson, M. K. 2012. “Othering Intellectual Disability: Two Models of Classification from the 19th Century.” Theory and Psychology 22 (5): 541–555.10.1177/0959354310378375

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