Human rights and intellectual disabilities in an era of 'choice'.
Background Efforts to uphold and promote the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities ( ID) are being affected by the increasing emphasis on 'choice' in the delivery of social care services. While rights presume subjects or selves to whom they apply, there is a disconnect between the su...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 57; no. 12; pp. 1164 - 1173 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2013
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