A sex police for adults with "mental retardation"? Comment on Spiecker and Steutel

Journal of Moral Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-179

  Greenspan, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; PATERNALISM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; EUGENICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL RETARDATION; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; PATERNALISM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 0036623459     PISSN: 03057240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057240220143278     Document Type: Article

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