‘An Ordinary Sexual Life?’: A review of the normalisation principle as it applies to the sexual options of people with learning disabililties

Disability & Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 123-144

  Brown, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84963177652     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599466780181     Document Type: Article

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