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1965 mental retardation legislation
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Secretary's Committee 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):
- People with mental disabilities--United States.
- People with mental disabilities.
- Mental health laws--United States.
- Mental health laws.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (19 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- 1965
- 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:
- 1148180422
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