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Author:   Philip Ferguson (Chapman University) ,  Yueh-Ching Chou ,  Carol Hamilton (University of Waiktato) ,  Gudrun Stefansdottir
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447344599

ISBN 10:   1447344596
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction ~ Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett; Paradoxical Lives: Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth Century Australia ~ Lee-Ann Monk; Tracing the Historical and Ideological Roots of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Austria ~ Gertraud Kremsner, Oliver Koenig and Tobias Buchner; Time of Paradoxes: What the Twentieth Century was like for People with Intellectual Disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic ~ Monika Mužáková and Iva Strnadová; Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Ghana ~ Jane Abraham and Auberon Jaleel Odoom; A Greek Neverland: The History of the Leros Asylums' Inmates with Intellectual Disability (1958-95) ~ Danae Karydaki; Intellectual Disability in Hong Kong: Then and Now ~ Phyllis King Shui Wong; People with Intellectual Disabilities in the European Semi-Periphery: The Case of Hungary ~ Ágnes Turnpenny; People with Intellectual Disabilities in Iceland in the Twentieth Century: Sterilization, Social Role Valorization and ‘Normal Life’ ~ Guðrún Stefánsdóttir; Institutionalisation in Twentieth-Century New Zealand ~ Carol Hamilton; ‘My Life in the Institution’ and ‘My Life in the Community’: Policies and Practice in Taiwan ~ Yueh-Ching Chou; Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century United Kingdom ~ Simon Jarrett and Jan Walmsley; From Social Menace to Unfulfilled Promise: The Evolution of Policy and Practice toward People with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States ~ Philip M. Ferguson.

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This excellent book provides a broad yet richly textured, nuanced study of intellectual disability in 12 states/areas over the long twentieth century. Social History of Medicine

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Jan Walmsley is a historian of intellectual disability and Visiting Chair in History of Learning Disability at The Open University. In 1994 she founded the Social History of Learning Disability Research Group at The Open University. Simon Jarrett is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a historian of intellectual disability and editor of Community Living magazine.

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