Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice

doi:10.46692/9781447344582

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Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century

Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice

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Edited by Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781447344582
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447344582

Subjects:: Intellectual Property, Law

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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).

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Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century

Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on editors and contributors
pp v-viii

Introduction
pp 1-20

one - Paradoxical lives: intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia
pp 21-34

two - Tracing the historical and ideological roots of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria
pp 35-52

three - Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic
pp 53-66

four - Intellectual disability in twentieth-century Ghana
pp 67-78

five - A Greek Neverland: the history of the Leros asylums’ inmates with intellectual disability (1958–95)
pp 79-98

six - Intellectual disability in Hong Kong: then and now
pp 99-112

seven - People with intellectual disabilities in the European semi-periphery: the case of Hungary
pp 113-128

eight - People with intellectual disabilities in Iceland in the twentieth century: sterilisation, social role valorisation and ‘normal life’
pp 129-142

nine - Institutionalisation in twentieth-century New Zealand
pp 143-164

ten - ‘My life in the institution’ and ‘My life in the community’: policies and practice in Taiwan
pp 165-176

eleven - Intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century United Kingdom
pp 177-194

twelve - From social menace to unfulfilled promise: the evolution of policy and practice towards people with intellectual disabilities in the United States
pp 195-206

Index
pp 207-216

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