The Limits of Knowing Other Minds: Intellectual Disability and the Challenge of Opacity.
New care workers in Britain typically struggle to understand, on their initial encounters, people who communicate atypically due to their intellectual disabilities. But they are required to provide care that is attuned to these individuals' desires and intentions. Why, then, does a care organization...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23 |
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Berghahn Books
Mar2021
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