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Intellectually Impaired People

The Ongoing Battle

  • 1st Edition - March 9, 2023
  • Author: Klaus Rose
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 1 3 - 8
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 1 2 - 1

Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approache… Read more

Intellectually Impaired People

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Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approaches and attitudes toward persons with disabilities. The book discusses national and international conventions, societal attitudes, sheltered workshops, the right of intellectually impaired persons for self-responsibility and its limitations, and the place of mentally impaired persons in the public image. Additionally, the book attempts to capture the forces that drive the changes of our conceptual frameworks.

The US Tuskegee study which withheld antibiotics from black men with syphilis was not ended by scientific criticism but by a courageous man, press reports, and a changed social perception. The non-hiding of handicapped children is not the result of government orders, there are many non-resolvable dilemmas and tension between supporting, understanding, and patronizing a complex situation with many potential future avenues.