Research Catalog

Title

Equal treatment for people with mental retardation : having and raising children / Martha A. Field, Valerie A. Sanchez.

Author

Field, Martha A.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Sanchez, Valerie A., 1960-

Description

xii, 439 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Developmentally disabled > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Eugenics > legislation & jurisprudence
• Family Planning Services > legislation & jurisprudence
• Informed Consent > legislation & jurisprudence
• Informed consent (Medical law) > United States
• Involuntary sterilization > Law and legislation > United States
• Parent and child (Law) > United States
• Parenting > psychology
• Parents with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Persons with Mental Disabilities > legislation & jurisprudence
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-424) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Introduction. 1. Some Families. 2. Public Policy, Past and Present. 3. Who Are Called "Retarded"? -- pt. II. Procreation. 4. Procreative Choice -- But Whose? 5. Evolution of Policies toward Sterilization. 6. Current Policy Issues concerning Sterilization. 7. What Should the Standards for Sterilization Be? 8. Sex and Contraception. 9. The Limited Impact of Guardianship. 10. The Peculiar Problem of Abortion -- pt. III. A Proposal for Self-Determination. 11. Self-Determination Explained and Evaluated. 12. Necessary Limitations on Self-Determination. 13. The Possibility of Varying the Rule -- pt. IV. Parenting. 14. Some Underlying Rules and Issues. 15. Written Law concerning Parenting: Important Issues for Parents with Retardation. 16. The Social Welfare System in Practice. 17. Reforming the System.

ISBN

0674800869 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99035786^

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Harvard Library