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The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of \"ordinary lives\" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of \"scientific\" pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were.
This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. Goodey argues that learning disability is not a historically stable category and different people are considered \"learning disabled\" as it changes over time. Using psychological and anthropological theory, he identifies the deeper lying pathology as \"inclusion phobia\", in which the tendency of human societies to establish an in-group and to assign out-groups reaches an extreme point. Thus the disability we call \"intellectual\" is a concept essential only to an era in which to be human is essentially to be deemed intelligent, autonomous and capable of rational choice.
Interweaving the author's historical scholarship with his practice-based experience in the field, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia challenges myths about the past as well as about present-day concepts, exposing both the historical continuities and the radical discontinuities in thinking about learning disability.
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The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of \"ordinary lives\" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of \"scientific\" pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were.
This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. Goodey argues that learning disability is not a historically stable category and different people are considered \"learning disabled\" as it changes over time. Using psychological and anthropological theory, he identifies the deeper lying pathology as \"inclusion phobia\", in which the tendency of human societies to establish an in-group and to assign out-groups reaches an extreme point. Thus the disability we call \"intellectual\" is a concept essential only to an era in which to be human is essentially to be deemed intelligent, autonomous and capable of rational choice.
Interweaving the author's historical scholarship with his practice-based experience in the field, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia challenges myths about the past as well as about present-day concepts, exposing both the historical continuities and the radical discontinuities in thinking about learning disability.
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What is Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia about?
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of \"ordinary lives\" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of \"scientific\" pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were.
This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. Goodey argues that learning disability is not a historically stable category and different people are considered \"learning disabled\" as it changes over time. Using psychological and anthropological theory, he identifies the deeper lying pathology as \"inclusion phobia\", in which the tendency of human societies to establish an in-group and to assign out-groups reaches an extreme point. Thus the disability we call \"intellectual\" is a concept essential only to an era in which to be human is essentially to be deemed intelligent, autonomous and capable of rational choice.
Interweaving the author's historical scholarship with his practice-based experience in the field, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia challenges myths about the past as well as about present-day concepts, exposing both the historical continuities and the radical discontinuities in thinking about learning disability.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia?
Medicine and Nursing > Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics > Public health and preventive medicine > Personal and public health / health education
Where can I read a sample of Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781136772078
Is Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia?
C. F. Goodey
Who is the Publisher of the book Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia?
Taylor and Francis
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia is available as ebook(ISBN 9781136772078) and pdf(ISBN 9781136772009)