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Problems of Handicap

  • Textbook
  • © 1980

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Editors:
  1. R. S. Laura

    1. Monash University, Australia
      The University of Newcastle, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. On Understanding the Problem of Handicap

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xv-xv
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    2. Looking Ahead in Special Education

      • Peter Edwards
      Pages 1-7

    3. Changes in Educational and Residential Care for the Mentally Retarded

      • Adrian Ashman
      Pages 8-16

    4. Physical Handicap, Disability and Welfare

      • Norman Smith
      Pages 17-26

    5. Reactions to Physical Handicap

      • Phillip Greenway, D. Harvey
      Pages 27-32

    6. Are Two Brains Better Than One? Some Educational Implications of Research on Cerebral Asymmetry

      • N. C. Nettleton, J. L. Bradshaw
      Pages 33-46

    7. Sexuality and the Intellectually Handicapped Person

      • Janne Lee
      Pages 47-54

    8. Left-Handedness as an Educational Handicap

      • Marilyn Goodall
      Pages 55-66

    9. Deprivation, Disadvantage and Occupational Choice

      • Peter Musgrave
      Pages 67-74

  3. Philosophical Issues in Respect of the Handicapped

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Some Thoughts Towards a Philosophy of Physical Handicap

      • Bill Warren
      Pages 76-85

    3. Handicapped Persons and the Rights They Possess: The Right to Life, Liberty, Self-Development, Development of Self

      • H. J. McCloskey
      Pages 86-104

    4. Preferential Treatment for the Handicapped?

      • D. H. Monro
      Pages 105-114

    5. Distributive Justice, Education and the Handicapped

      • Robert Elliot
      Pages 115-125

    6. Infanticide and the Severely Defective Infant

      • Robert Young
      Pages 126-135

    7. Mental Abnormality and Punishment

      • C. L. Ten
      Pages 136-143

    8. Privacy, Personal Identity and Handicap

      • John Kleinig
      Pages 144-155

    9. Do the Mentally Retarded Have a Right to Reproduce

      • R. S. Laura, A. Gazzard
      Pages 156-166
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    R. S. Laura

  • The University of Newcastle, UK

    R. S. Laura

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Problems of Handicap

  • Editors: R. S. Laura

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05653-8

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 166

  • Topics: Premedical Education

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