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Intellectual disability in the twentieth century : transnational perspectives on people, policy, and practice /
Bringing together accounts of how intellectual disability was viewed, managed and experienced in countries across the globe, the book examines the origins and nature of contemporary attitudes, policy and practice and sheds light on the challenges of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Policy Press scholarship online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on editors and contributors; Introduction; One: Paradoxical lives: intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia; Two: Tracing the historical and ideological roots of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria; Three: Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic; Four: Intellectual disability in twentieth-century Ghana
- Five: A Greek Neverland: the history of the Leros asylums' inmates with intellectual disability (1958-95)Six: Intellectual disability in Hong Kong: then and now; Seven: People with intellectual disabilities in the European semi-periphery: the case of Hungary; Eight: People with intellectual disabilities in Iceland in the twentieth century: sterilisation, social role valorisation and 'normal life'; Nine: Institutionalisation in twentieth-century New Zealand; Ten: 'My life in the institution' and 'My life in the community': policies and practice in Taiwan
- Eleven: Intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century United KingdomTwelve: From social menace to unfulfilled promise: the evolution of policy and practice towards people with intellectual disabilities in the United States; Index; Back Cover