This is the first full study of the great alarm about "mental defectiv es" in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of se gregation, community care, and sexual sterilization. Mathew Thomson ex amines the origins of these policies in central government and shows h ow they were put into practice by health professionals and local autho rities. He reveals how policy-makers avoided extremist measures such a s compulsory sterilization (introduced in Germany and parts of the US during this period), not for reasons of liberal principle but because of the socially conservative and...
This is the first full study of the great alarm about "mental defectiv es" in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the resulting policies of se gregatio...
Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters. One of these (the 'Arte della guerra') was published in 1521, but the rest of his major writings were not published until 1531-2, nearly five years after his death. They continued to be reissued regularly, well into the early seventeenth century. The popularity of Machiavelli's books, the variety of his themes, the different contexts within which he was studied, the range of readers' interests, and the fact that his name entered the vocabulary of every European language...
Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters. One of these (the 'Arte de...
Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-century Britain. Ranging from the excitement about a new age at the start of the century to the permissive society of the 1970s, it offers us a new picture of how Britons of the period came to think about
Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-cent...
Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual danger, and television in the erosion of freedom. Thomson argues that the Second World War has an important place in this story, with...
Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of c...
