Mental Retardation and Sterilization: A Problem of Competency and Paternalism

by Ruth Macklin and Willard Gaylin

Book Overview

1 This book is the product of a one-year project conducted by the Hastings Center, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, during 1976-1977. The Behavior Control Research Group-an ongoing, interdisciplinary working group com- posed of philosophers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social sci- entists, and lawyers-met four times over the course of the year with special consultants with expertise in the field of mental retardation. At those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468439251
• ISBN13: 9781468439250
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"