- The term feeble-minded was used from the late 19th
century in Europe, the
United States and
Australasia for
disorders later referred to as
illnesses or...
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Booker International Prize. La débil
mental (2014) was
translated as
Feebleminded (Charco Press). Her
works have been
translated into more than ten languages...
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committed to the
Virginia Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded on the
grounds of
feeblemindedness,
incorrigible behavior, and promiscuity. Her commitment...
- "
feebleminded", dependent, neglected, or "delinquent" to
state guardianship.
County probate judges were
given the
ability to
commit any "
feebleminded"...
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while Buck was an
inmate of the
Virginia State Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded, took
place under the
authority of the
Sterilization Act of 1924, part...
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Compulsory sterilization, also
known as
forced or
coerced sterilization,
refers to any government-mandated
program to
involuntarily sterilize a specific...
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American Institutions for
Idiotic and
Feebleminded Persons 1906:
American ****ociation for the
Study of the
Feebleminded 1933:
American ****ociation on Mental...
- and
introduced classifications of
mental level such as
imbecile and
feebleminded. In 1916, (after Binet's death),
Stanford professor Lewis M.
Terman modified...
- unfit. In 1929, he
wrote that
people deemed "mentally defective" and "
feebleminded"
should be ****ually
sterilised because they "are apt to have enormous...
- girl to the
Virginia State Colony for
Epileptics and
Feebleminded on the
grounds of
feeblemindedness,
incorrigible behavior, and promiscuity. They did not...