Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century : : Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice / / ed. by Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Jane,; Buchner, Tobias,; Chou, Yueh-Ching,; Ferguson, Philip M.,; Hamilton, Carol,; Jarrett, Simon,; Karydaki, Danae,; Koenig, Oliver,; Kremsner, Gertraud,; Monk, Lee-Ann,; Mužáková, Monika,; Odoom, Auberon Jaleel,; Stefánsdóttir, Guðrún,; Strnadová, Iva,; Turnpenny, Ágnes,; Walmsley, Jan,; Wong, Phyllis King Shui,
• HerausgeberIn: Jarrett, Simon,; Walmsley, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

With contributions from distinguished authors in 14 countries across 5 continents, this book provides a unique transnational perspective on intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Each chapter outlines different policies and practices, and details real-life accounts from those living with intellectual disabilities to illustrate their impact of policies and practices on these people and their families. 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).

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on editors and contributors -- Introduction -- Paradoxical lives: intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia -- Tracing the historical and ideological roots of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Austria -- Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic -- Intellectual disability in twentieth-century Ghana -- A Greek Neverland: the history of the Leros asylums’ inmates with intellectual disability (1958–95) -- Intellectual disability in Hong Kong: then and now -- People with intellectual disabilities in the European semi-periphery: the case of Hungary -- People with intellectual disabilities in Iceland in the twentieth century: sterilisation, social role valorisation and ‘normal life’ -- Institutionalisation in twentieth-century New Zealand -- ‘My life in the institution’ and ‘My life in the community’: policies and practice in Taiwan -- Intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century United Kingdom -- From social menace to unfulfilled promise: the evolution of policy and practice towards people with intellectual disabilities in the United States -- Index