Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

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

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.