Abstract
Recognition of the special needs of people with a mental handicap is relatively new. For centuries people with disparate disabilities were defined as similar to one another, although rarely treated as equal to the rest of humanity. The resulting myth of mental handicap has been a powerful stereotype: the heterogenity of people who are inherently different has often been overlooked. The recognition that people with different needs might require different services also was overlooked.
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Darbyshire, P. (1991). Working with people with a mental handicap. In: Barker, P.J., Baldwin, S. (eds) Ethical Issues in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3270-9_6
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