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Borderland of Imbecility
Author: Jackson, Mark (Senior Lecturer, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)
Hardback; Book; 15 B&w Illustrations
256 pages
Published: September 2000
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719054567

Medicine, society and the fabrication of the feeble mind in later Victorian and Edwardian England.Feeble-mindedness was a late Victorian and Edwardian obsession. This is an examination of how and why certain children and adults were labelled as feeble-minded and segregated into special schools and colonies during this period. It uses both archival sources and contemporary material.



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