The Human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities : different but equal / edited by Stanley S. Herr, Lawrence O. Gostin, Harold Hongju Koh.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Learning disabled -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Learning disabled -- Civil rights.

Human rights.

Mental health.

1. Meeting the needs of people with an intellectual disability: intellectual perspectives

2. Terminology and power

3. Cross-cultural perceptions of disability: policy implications of divergent views

4. Social policy toward intellectual disabilities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries --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. Liberty, due process, and the pursuit of happinesstThe disability rights movement: anti-discrimination legislation: --8. The potential of disability non-discrimination laws

9. When legislation should take intellectual disabilities into account

10. Statutory changes in disability policy: types of legislation, policies, and goals --11. On second thought: constructing knowledge, law, disability, and inequality

12. Respecting persons with disabilities and preventing disability: is there a conflict?

13. Studying the emerging workforce

14. Economics of equality: an exploration of country differences

15. Out-of-home placement of children with intellectual disabilities: the need for a family support policy

16. Self-determination, autonomy, and alternatives for guardianship --17. Voices of self-advocates

18. Recognizing existing rights and crafting new ones: tools for drafting human rights instruments for people with mental disabilities

19. Recommendations for the United Nations and international NGOs.

Includes index.

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xx, 551 p.