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C. F. Goodey. A History of Intelligence and Intellectual Disability. Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe. UK / USA: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011. 388pp. [pounds sterling]35, $69.95. Review by MARIA G. NAVARRO, SPANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CSIC). A History of Intelligence and Intellectual Disability examines how the concepts of ability and became part of psychology, medicine and biology. Focusing on the period between the Protestant Reform and 1700, this book shows that in many cases it has been accepted without scientific and psychological foundations that and describe natural or trans- historical realities. The author, C.F. Goodey, has been investigating the history of intellectual for more than 20 years. He has developed his research while teaching at Ruskin College, Oxford, the Open University and the University of London among others. Goodey has a strong hypothesis with a clear theoretical potential. He makes his research following historical conditions, accepting temporal restrictions and analysing concepts from a semantic point of view (in different fields as for example the psychology, biology, medicine and even philosophy of the mentioned period). Consequence of this research is not only a critique of the presumptive natural signification of and but a new approach with educative, political, social and psychological implications. He demonstrates that the topic he presents to debate and public critical thinking is in truth related to the social origins of human self-representation. It is in this sense how we should understand the current debates on intelligence. Another important argument is that is a notion developed through dilemmas around predestination and free will in Protestant theology. However, it is important to not forget that this diagnostic is not equivalent to the author's claim to regard and as historical contingences. The book is well structured. Having in mind that the author has accepted certain historical reconstructions focusing his attention on the political, social, psychological and even medical and educative dimensions of the concepts he presents to analyse, we can say that the book is extremely serious in his general plan. Limitations and contradictions of a historical genealogy of intelligence and disability as natural or trans-historical realities will permit the author to test his hypothesis about the radical contingency of our dreams about human and the particular nightmare of this dream is its absence. Divided into eight parts, A History of Intelligence and Intellectual Disability, has the subtitle The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe, the theoretical hypothesis and the historical framework are constituted by eighteen chapters in which the notion of is presented as part of socio-economic structures, medical histories, status and forms of power and even as phenomenon that implores a kind of ethics of exceptionality. This history of and intellectual shows in its passionate eighteen chapters that the very salient and notable history of human self-representation is also a history of exclusion and dishonour for testing the rule of human nature through classification and abnormality. …
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