"Cretins" and "idiots" in an Austrian alpine valley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: interests, social norms, and institutions involved in the attribution of "imbecility"

Crime Hist Soc. 1999;3(1):5-27. doi: 10.4000/chs.932.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Attitude to Health / ethnology
  • Austria / ethnology
  • Community Networks / economics
  • Community Networks / history
  • Community Networks / legislation & jurisprudence
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Judicial Role* / history
  • Mental Disorders* / economics
  • Mental Disorders* / ethnology
  • Mental Disorders* / history
  • Mental Disorders* / psychology
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities* / history
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities* / psychology
  • Prejudice
  • Rural Health / history
  • Rural Population* / history
  • Social Conditions* / economics
  • Social Conditions* / history
  • Social Conditions* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Stereotyping*