Symposium
Subtitle: mentally retarded people and the law.
Series: Stanford law review -- April 1979
Publisher: Stanford Law Review
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 829
Subjects: Mental Retardation -- legislation & jurisprudence.; Patient Advocacy -- legislation & jurisprudence.; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- legislation & jurisprudence.; Deinstitutionalization.
Genres: legislation & jurisprudence.
Other titles: Mentally retarded people and the law
Table of contents: value: Litigation on behalf of retarded persons. The new clients: legal services for mentally retarded persons.; value: The law and mentally retarded people: an uncertain future.; value: The silent clients: legal and ethical considerations in representing severely and profoundly retarded individuals.; value: Ending abuse in institutions: the case of psychotropic drugs. Invisible manacles: drugging mentally retarded people.; value: Ending institutionalization. Health planning and deinstitutionalization: advocacy within the administrative process.; value: Anti-institutionalization: the promise.; value: Unnecessary coercion: an end to involuntary civil commitment of retarded persons.; value: Legal problems of retarded people in community settings. "A sanctuary for people": strategies for overcoming zoning restrictions on community homes for retarded persons.; value: Retarded parents in neglect proceedings: the erroneous assumption of parental inadequacy (note).; value: The right to treatment and educational rights of handicapped persons: Lora v. Board of Education.; value: Epilogue: Developmental disability law: a look into the future.