Emerging Issues in Mental Retardation: Self-Determination versus Self-Interest. From: Health and Social Work | Date: August 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Association of Social Workers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

This issue of Health & Social Work launches a series of Forums on the social care of people with special needs-people with cognitive disabilities, brain injury, mental illness, addictions, and organic disorders. Because these individuals can be disabled substantially and their judgment may be impaired, they require continuous "looking after" by society, but specifically by competent, responsible people. Our May issue set the stage for discussion of social care with articles on a wide range of contemporary social work activities involving care and its meanings in the capitalistic ...

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