For generations, persons with intellectual disabilities have too often been the invisible minority: scorned, ignored , hidden from the world. This landmark volume demonstrates that a new era of respect, support, and opportunity has begun. These essays by acknowledged world leaders on human rights and intellectual disabilities emphasize the importance of effective action by all nations to protect these basic rights by implementing fair and sensible social policies.
Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts
This volume brings together two important contemporary social movements: human rights and disability rights. It analyses the global struggle to realize equality, dignity, and comprehensive human and civil rights for persons with intellectual disabilities. In 20 chapters, contributors from a range of disciplines address the latest international developments in the field. These include international human rights standards and other sources of legal protection, nondiscrimination laws and the economics of equality, preventative technology, remediation and habilitation, and lifestyle chices and autonomy. The volume specifically considers the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities from an international perspective. It identifies recent internatinal advances in their human rights and public policy positions, in addition to making recommendations for further advances at both the national and international levels.
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This volume brings together two important contemporary social movements: human rights and disability rights. It analyses the global struggle to realize equality, dignity, and comprehensive human and civil rights for persons with intellectual disabilities.
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Dedication ; Foreword ; Introduction ; I. CONCEPTUALIZING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: HISTORY AND TERMINOLOGY ; 1. Meeting the Needs of People with Intellectual Disabilities: International Perspectives ; 2. Terminology and Power ; 3. Definitions and Classifications in Cross-cultural Perspectives ; 4. Social Policy Toward Intellectual Disablilities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; II. THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND STANDARDS ; 5. From Wrongs to Rights: International Human Rights and Legal Protection ; 6. Disability as a Subject of International Human Rights Law and Comparative Discrimination Law ; 7. Human Rights Standards and Legal Reforms ; 8. Liberty, Due Process, and the Pursuit of Happiness ; III. THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION ; 9. The Potential of Disability Nondiscrimination Laws ; 10. When Legislation Should Take Intellectual Disabilities into Account ; 11. Statutory Changes in Disability Policy: Types of Legislation, Policies, and Goals ; IV. EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE: SOCIAL POLICY PERSPECTIVES ; 12. On Second Thoughts: Constructing knowledge, Law, Disability, and Inequality ; 13. Prevention of Disability: Is There a Conflict between Public health Prevention and Respect for Persons with Disabilities ; 14. Studying the Emerging Workforce ; 15. The Economics of Equality: An Exploration of Country Differences ; 16. Out-of-home Placement of Children with Intellectual Disabilities: the Need for a Family Support Policy ; 17. Self Determination, Autonomy, and Alternatives for Guardianship ; V. FUTURE GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS ; 18. Voices of Self-advocates ; 19. Recommendations for Developing Nations ; 20. Recommendations for the United Nations and International NGOs ; Conclusion
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For generations, persons with intellectual disabilities have too often been the invisible minority: scorned, ignored , hidden from the world. This landmark volume demonstrates that a new era of respect, support, and opportunity has begun. These essays by acknowledged world leaders on human rights and intellectual disabilities emphasize the importance of effective action by all nations to protect these basic rights by implementing fair and sensible social policies.
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'For generations, persons with intellectual disabilities have too often been the invisible minority: scorned, ignored , hidden from the world. This landmark volume demonstrates that a new era of respect, support, and opportunity has begun. These essays by acknowledged world leaders on human rights and intellectual disabilities emphasize the importance of effective action by all nations to protect these basic rights by implementing fair and sensible social
policies.'
Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts
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Its international perspective on human rights of the intellectually disabled is unique
Interdisciplinary- law, ethics, public policy
Professor Stanley S. Herr taught at the University of Maryland School of Law from 1983 until his death in September 2001. In addition to his work in public policy, he was a Switzer Distinguished Research Fellow of the National Insitiute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Schell Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Law School Schell Center for International Human Rights, and President of the American Association on Mental Retardation. Lawrence O. Gostin is
Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins
Univerities. He has contributed to U.S. government advisory boards in several areas of public health. Harold Hongju Koh is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1985. From 1998 to 2001, he served in the U.S. as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Guggenheim and Century Foundations.
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Its international perspective on human rights of the intellectually disabled is unique
Interdisciplinary- law, ethics, public policy
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199264513
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
823 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
574