Mental Retardation: The Reality Behind the Label

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (2):179 (1994)
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I'd like to say a few things about the quality of life of people like me. We can have – and now I do have – a good quality of life, but we still have to fight for it. We have to take back control of our lives from the KEEPERS, from the professionals

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Carl Schmitt and the Frankfurt School.Ellen Kennedy - 1987 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1987 (71):37-66.
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