This volume is very much a mental retardation work in the developmental psychopathology line.

A collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.

This book is the second edition of a volume that is designed to update readers on some of these many developments.

This book is the formal presentation of the issues discussed at the Second National Conference on the Legal Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation.

At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in ...

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. ‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian

"This is an excellent and timely book which makes a major contribution to this branch of science. It brings together information about the workings of hormones that control almost every aspect of insect physiology.

The negative attitudes, prejudice, and stigma that often surround many of these disorders have contributed to this neglect. Lacking proper diagnosis and treatment, millions of individual lives are lost to disability and death.

This eight-year study of an American city traces the answer to the question "Who is retarded?" by analyzing the labeling process in a large number of community agencies.

Easy to read and informative, this book is essential for any parent or teacher who has a child with a learning disability.