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Normalisation in Mental Handicap—Acceptance without Questions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anne Boucherat
Anne Boucherat*
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Section of Mental Handicap, Division of Psychiatry, United Dental and Medical Schools, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1
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When searching for a definition of mental handicap, I came across the following:

“Handicap is something imposed on a disability to make it more limiting than it need necessarily be.” (Shearer, quoted in O. Russell, 1985).

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 12 , December 1987 , pp. 423 - 425
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