Intellectually Impaired People. The Ongoing Battle

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Book
March 2023
Elsevier Science and Technology
ID: 5709242

Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle addresses challenges against the background of history, changing societal environments, and current intellectual approaches and attitudes toward persons with disabilities. The book discusses national and international conventions, societal attitudes, sheltered workshops, the right of intellectually impaired persons for self-responsibility and its limitations, and the place of mentally impaired persons in the public image. Additionally, the book attempts to capture the forces that drive the changes of our conceptual frameworks.

The US Tuskegee study which withheld antibiotics from black men with syphilis was not ended by scientific criticism but by a courageous man, press reports, and a changed social perception. The non-hiding of handicapped children is not the result of government orders, there are many non-resolvable dilemmas and tension between supporting, understanding, and patronizing a complex situation with many potential future avenues.

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1. Introduction
2. The almost non-existing place of handicapped persons in history
3. Today's changing composition of mankind
4. What physical and/or mental impairment have in common, and what differentiates them
5. Causes of impairment
6. Archaic and modern attitudes and thought buildings: Religions, charity, and philanthropy
7. Eugenics and the enforcement of social norms in industrialized countries and how many allegedly humane institutions gambled away their moral credit
8. Intellectual revolutions in the 20th century
9. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
10. UN declarations, conventions, and international law
11. The Olympic Games, Paralympics, and more as a case study
12. Medical literature on the treatment of impaired limbs, organs and persons
13. Guides for parents
14. Guides for professionals
15. Jobs for mentally impaired persons in the past
16. Sheltered workshops
17. Handicapped persons in TV and movies
18. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
19. Competition, social care, and hypocrisy
20. The needy live here, not only far away
21. Sexuality
22. Parents' bad conscience
23. The challenge of mentally impaired persons will never go away
24. Conclusion and outlook: mankind has always mastered new challenges

Authors

Klaus Rose Klausrose Consulting, Pediatric Drug Development and More; Riehen (Basel), Switzerland. Dr. Klaus Rose is a medical doctor by training and profession. In the 1990s, after clinical training, he joined the pharmaceutical industry. In 1999 at Novartis in Switzerland, he came across clinical studies in children and was intrigued. His eldest daughter suffered from Sturge-Weber syndrome, which is serious and very rare. Dr. Rose became passionate about "pediatric drug development� and what the European Medicines Agency (EMA) called "Better Medicines for Children.� He became global head pediatrics at Novartis from 2001-2005 and moved to the same position 2005-2009 at Genentech/Roche. After one more year at a regulatory company, he became an independent consultant in 2011. He advises companies on EMA "pediatric investigation plans� (PIPs), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pediatric requests or demands. He detected fundamental flaws in "Pediatric Drug Development" and publishes about this (and more) in peer-reviewed journals and medical textbooks.

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