feebleminded

No matter, the most farfetched and feebleminded is yet to come.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

This is no less true (and often even more so) for the sorrowful beings you put behind closed doors, like animals in cages, because of the trouble they cause you: the weak, the infirm, the bedridden, and the so-called feebleminded, those who (by human standards) are not of great intelligence.

Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

This is no less true (and often even more so) for the sorrowful beings you put behind closed doors, like animals in cages, because of the trouble they cause you: the weak, the infirm, the bedridden, and the so-called feebleminded, those who (by human standards) are not of great intelligence.

Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

The clearest evidence, however, of the economic inefficiency of the county home method of caring for the feebleminded is the case of a feebleminded woman, who has been a resident of a county home for fifty-one years, having given birth while at the county home to ten children.

Biennial Report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, December 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 North Carolina State Board of Charities 1920

In the United States, fears of "race suicide," an influx of immigrants from Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe, and concerns about the growth of the so-called feebleminded population at home led to the embrace of eugenics, the movement to improve the human race through better breeding practices.

Claremont.org 2009

In the 1930s, the average life expectancy for those classified as feebleminded was approximately 18.5 years.

History News Network 2009

For example, the term mentally retarded was originally used as a euphemism, as had been moron before, itself a euphemism for idiot, in order to avoid true dyslogisms such as feebleminded or half-witted.

Waldo Jaquith - The euphemism treadmill. 2007

The latest issue of the History of Psychiatry journal contains an article by psychologist Jay Joseph, discussing a disturbing debate in a 1942 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, over whether the 'feebleminded' should be killed.

Mind Hacks: July 2005 Archives 2005

The latest issue of the History of Psychiatry journal contains an article by psychologist Jay Joseph, discussing a disturbing debate in a 1942 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, over whether the 'feebleminded' should be killed.

Mind Hacks: Psychiatry's dark debate, 1942 2005

There was a building boom in institutions designed to house the insane and "feebleminded" around the country.

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