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Field, Martha A. & Sanchez, Valerie A: Equal Treatment for People With
Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children. Harvard University Press 2001
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"A major contribution to the scholarly literature on discrimination and
on civil rights and liberties." --Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean, Stanford Law
School Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation Having and Raising
Children Martha A. Field and Valerie A. Sanchez Engaging in sex, becoming
parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make,
and for people with mental retardation, they have been consistently challenged,
regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American
legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed
procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues
persuasively that persons with retardation should have legal authority to make
their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which
has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the
1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population
persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics
movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how
misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third
parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental
retardation. And they explore the effect of these decisions on those they
purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is in effect a
sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it
describes. Martha A. Field is Langdell Professor of Law, Harvard University.
Valerie A. Sanchez has been Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, and is an
academic practitioner in American civil liberties law and alternative dispute
resolution.
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Kehitysvamma-alan kirjallisuutta
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Kirjakaupat & Kustantajat -
Makupalat, Hämeenlinnan kaupunginkirjasto - Hämeenlinna City Library, Finland
Mental retardation in Finland
Selkokirjallisuutta
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