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Narrowed Lives Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

Paperback • 2021 • English

Narrowed Lives Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

By Simo Vehmas, Reetta Mietola

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About the book

What is day-to-day life like for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities who live in group homes? How do they express their desires and wishes? How do care workers think about them and treat them? Do they have basic rights to activities most of us take for granted: activities like sociability, sexuality, and moral affirmation? Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of what life is like in Finnish group homes where adults who have profound intellectual and multiple disabi...Show more

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ISBN

9789176351512

Publisher

Stockholm University Press

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

Narrowed Lives Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

Format

Paperback

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