Jan Walmsley & Simon Jarrett 
Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century [EPUB ebook] 
Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice

Introduction ~ Jan Walmsley, Simon Jarrett;

Paradoxical Lives: Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth Century Australia ~ Lee-Ann Monk;

Tracing the Historical and Ideological Roots of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Austria ~ Gertraud Kremsner, Oliver Koenig and Tobias Buchner;

Time of Paradoxes: What the Twentieth Century was like for People with Intellectual Disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic ~ Monika Mužáková and Iva Strnadová;

Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Ghana ~ Jane Abraham and Auberon Jaleel Odoom;

A Greek Neverland: The History of the Leros Asylums’ Inmates with Intellectual Disability (1958-95) ~ Danae Karydaki;

Intellectual Disability in Hong Kong: Then and Now ~ Phyllis King Shui Wong;

People with Intellectual Disabilities in the European Semi-Periphery: The Case of Hungary ~ Ágnes Turnpenny;

People with Intellectual Disabilities in Iceland in the Twentieth Century: Sterilization, Social Role Valorization and ‘Normal Life’ ~ Guðrún Stefánsdóttir;

Institutionalisation in Twentieth-Century New Zealand ~ Carol Hamilton;

‘My Life in the Institution’ and ‘My Life in the Community’: Policies and Practice in Taiwan ~ Yueh-Ching Chou;

Intellectual Disability Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century United Kingdom ~ Simon Jarrett and Jan Walmsley;

From Social Menace to Unfulfilled Promise: The Evolution of Policy and Practice toward People with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States ~ Philip M. Ferguson.

Simon Jarrett is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a historian of intellectual disability and editor of Community Living magazine.