The Legal Rights Of Citizens With Mental Retardation

Author : Lawrence A. Kane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legal Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation written by Lawrence A. Kane and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the formal presentation of the issues discussed at the Second National Conference on the Legal Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation. A relationship between the community and its citizens with mental retardation is discussed extensively in the first section of the book. Other sections of the book are devoted to key litigation and legislation for the rights of citizens with mental retardation, law as it pertains to newborns with severe handicaps, advances in education and rehabilitation, and future strategies for advocacy. A few of the noted contributors include Carl R. Halpern, Dean of the CUNY Law School, Professor Robert A. Burt of Yale University, and Professor Robert H. Mnookin of Stanford University. This book is designed as a basic reference for advocates and others concerned with the mentally retarded.

Author : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens with Mental Retardation written by United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation. Legal Rights Work Group
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compendium of Law Suits Establishing the Legal Rights of Mentally Retarded Citizens written by United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation. Legal Rights Work Group and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julius S. Cohen
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens with Mental Retardation and the Law written by Julius S. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation. Legal Rights Work Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compendium of Law Suits Establishing the Legal Rights of Mentally Retarded Citizens written by United States. President's Committee on Mental Retardation. Legal Rights Work Group and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Morris Levy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rights of People with Mental Disabilities written by Robert Morris Levy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book...is both timely and important, Great strides have been made in the understanding of mental illness, in the effectiveness of treatments, and in the improvement of living conditions for those who suffer. But much still needs to be done. People with mental disabilities continue to experience discrimination and stigma and are not able to enjoy the full fruits of American life. The Rights of People with Mental Disabilities reviews the issues and contemplates the areas in which all consumers, mental health professionals, and advocates can continue to make improvements. I Commend the authors for their work.' Rosalynn Carter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation and the Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martha A. Field
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036840
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation written by Martha A. Field and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are 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 people 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. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.

Author : Rae E. Unzicker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0756709040
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Privileges to Rights written by Rae E. Unzicker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the testimony of people with psychiatric disabilities (PD). These recommendations emphasize the principle that people with PD have the right to expect that they will be treated according to the principles of law that apply to all other citizens. All laws & policies that restrict the rights of people with PD simply because of their disabilities are inharmonious with basic principles of law & justice, as well as with such civil rights laws as the ADA. Chapters: when helping hurts; creating new lives: independent housing, economic supports, meaningful work; patients' rights: parity, alternatives, inclusion; criminal justice; & a zillion forms & still no civil rights.

Author : Richard J. Bonnie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226064505
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Disorder, Work Disability, and the Law written by Richard J. Bonnie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A barrage of "handbooks" and "resource manuals" aimed at employers and legal practitioners on the employment rights of people with disabilities has begun to appear. Until now, however, there has been no serious book-length scholarly treatment of how mental disorder can affect work, how work can affect mental disorder, and the role of law in addressing employment discrimination based on mental rather than physical disability. In Mental Disorder, Work Disability and the Law, the editors bring together original work by leading scholars who have studied mental disorder and work disability from the fields of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, law, and economics. The authors' contributions build upon one another to create the first integrated account of the important policy issues at stake when law deals with the rights of mentally disordered citizens to work when they are able to, and to receive benefits when they are not. This book will be of great value to scholars in law and the mental health professions and to policy makers and the administrators of disability programs.