The faces of intellectual disability : philosophical reflections / Licia Carlson.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 266 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and index.

The institutional world of intellectual disability -- Twin brothers : the "idiot" and the institution -- Gendered objects, gendered subjects -- Analytic interlude -- The philosophical world of intellectual disability -- The face of authority -- The face of the beast -- The face of suffering.