TY - BOOK ID - 118395385 TI - Intellectually Impaired People : The Ongoing Battle PY - 2023 SN - 9780443188121 0443188122 9780443188138 0443188130 PB - London, England : Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - People with mental disabilities. KW - Intellectually disabled persons KW - Mental disabilities, People with KW - Mentally deficient persons KW - Mentally disabled persons KW - Mentally disordered persons KW - Mentally handicapped KW - Mentally retarded persons KW - People with intellectual disabilities KW - Retarded persons KW - People with disabilities KW - Intellectual disability KW - Mentally ill KW - Persons with Mental Disabilities KW - Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118395385 AB - 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. Recognizes how contradictory feelings and attitudes toward impaired persons have a complex historical background Sheds light on society and our institutions that deal with disabled people and the limitations of an isolated medical approach Covers national and international conventions of mentally impaired persons. ER -