Report of the Task Force on Prevention, Clinical Services, and Residential Care

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. President's Panel on Mental Retardation.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability--United States.

Intellectual disability.

People with mental disabilities--United States.

People with mental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service,

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477837798