Intellectually impaired people : the ongoing battle.
Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approaches and attitudes toward persons with disabilities. The book discusses national and international conventions, societal attitudes...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Academic Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approaches and attitudes toward persons with disabilities. The book discusses national and international conventions, societal attitudes, sheltered workshops, the right of people with intellectual disabilities for self-responsibility and its limitations, and the place of people with mental disabilities in the public image. Additionally, the book attempts to capture the forces that drive the changes of our conceptual frameworks. The US Tuskegee study which withheld antibiotics from black men with syphilis was not ended by scientific criticism but by a courageous man, press reports, and a changed social perception. The non-hiding of children with disabilities is not the result of government orders, there are many non-resolvable dilemmas and tension between supporting, understanding, and patronizing a complex situation with many potential future avenues. Recognizes how contradictory feelings and attitudes toward person with disabilities have a complex historical background Sheds light on society and our institutions that deal with people with disabilities and the limitations of an isolated medical approach Covers national and international conventions of people with mental disabilities. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780443188121 0443188122 |