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The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Book chapter

The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States

Jeffrey P Brosco
Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp.26-54
Wiley‐Blackwell
2010-05-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444322781.ch2

Abstract

politics of projected prevalence of ID ‐ affecting definition of ID Federal spending for persons ‐ with developmental disabilities United States and intellectual disability ‐ issues for families and local governments National Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Retarded Children (later NARC) ‐ disability rights on state and national level improving public policy for persons with disabilities ‐ Eunice and Sargent Shriver intellectual disability ‐ medical model and beyond limits of medical model, historical epidemiology of intellectual disability in United States historical epidemiology of ID in United States ‐ not just counting persons with ID value of scientific medicine ‐ decline in childhood mortality causes of ID, with specific medical interventions

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