Title Intellectual disability in the twentieth century : transnational perspectives on people, policy, and practice / edited by Jan Walmsley and Simon Jarrett

Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) Series Policy Press scholarship online Policy Press scholarship online Contents 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 Summary 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 Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 28, 2019) Subject Intellectual disability -- History -- 20th century Mental health laws -- History -- 20th century LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Intellectual disability Mental health laws Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Walmsley, Jan, editor. Jarrett, Simon, editor. ISBN 9781447344582 1447344588 9781447344612 1447344618 9781447344605 144734460X 1447344626 9781447344629

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