Familiarity and strangeness: a case study of one woman with learning disabilities in the 1940s-1950s.
Examining the past reveals links with the present and enables reflection on how things have changed and what has remained the same. This article relates the story of a young woman, Gladys, who was institutionalised in the 1940s. The story is based on her case notes from a Hertfordshire institution f...
| Publicado en: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 36 - 39 |
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| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Apr2017
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