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From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.
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Access to History
This accessible and practical teaching resource focuses on access to the history curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties. Within an inclusive framework of participation and achievement for all, the book provides activities designed to be accessible to pupils with diverse individual needs, guidance on the P levels, assessment and recording opportunities, and advice on teaching history in a cross-curricular way.
By keeping in mind the needs of the busy practitioner, the book avoids jargon and concentrates on the real teaching opportunities.
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Personalisation
This handbook is a practical guide to the implentation of personalisation in adult care services.
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Experts at Work: State Autonomy, Social Learning and Eugenic Sterilization in 1930s Britain
One influential strand of public policy-making theory imputes considerable autonomy to civil servants (and politicians) from social pressures; and, in Heclo's variant, conceives of policy makers as engaging in a benign process of social learning, the results of which benefit society. In this article we use the campaign to enact legislation for voluntary sterilization as an example of such a process. The analysis is based on archival records of the deliberations of the Brock Committee (1932–34), established to investigate the desirability of sterilization; it demonstrates how the committee attempted to develop a stronger case for the measure than warranted by the scientific evidence. We argue that the content of the Brock Committee's deliberations conforms in broad terms to the predictions of social learning theory, but that the process was more complicated than this framework would suggest, involving a significant element of interest-group lobbying, thereby weakening the autonomy of state policy makers. Furthermore, the deliberations themselves give cause to revise the laudatory view, more or less explicit in social learning theory, of policy experts' machinations.
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