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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walmsley, Jan, editor.

Jarrett, Simon, editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30).

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol.

Intellectual disability--History--20th century.

Intellectual disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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).

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Notes on editors and contributors

Introduction

Paradoxical lives: intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia

Tracing the historical and ideological roots of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria

Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

Intellectual disability in twentieth-century Ghana

A Greek Neverland: the history of the Leros asylums’ inmates with intellectual disability (1958–95)

Intellectual disability in Hong Kong: then and now

People with intellectual disabilities in the European semi-periphery: the case of Hungary

People with intellectual disabilities in Iceland in the twentieth century: sterilisation, social role valorisation and ‘normal life’

Institutionalisation in twentieth-century New Zealand

‘My life in the institution’ and ‘My life in the community’: policies and practice in Taiwan

Intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century United Kingdom

From social menace to unfulfilled promise: the evolution of policy and practice towards people with intellectual disabilities in the United States

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-4460-X

1-4473-4462-6

1-4473-4458-8

OCLC:

1102416581