Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia

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Full title: Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia, edited by Errol Cocks, Charlie Fox, Mark Brogan and Michael Lee

This book examines the changing lives of people with intellectual disabilities in Western Australia from colonial times. The institutions, political and social ideologies and occupations that built their worlds are explored.

This is a difficult book to find, but luckily, one of the authors, Dr Mark Brogan, contacted us with new copies he has been storing. All profits from sales are going to charity.

Table of Contents:

1. Living in Fremantle Asylum: The Colonial Experience of Intellectual Disability 1829-1900 by Nonnan Megahey
2. 'Once a Defective, always a Defective': Public Sector Residential Care 1900-1965 by Christina Gillgren
3. Normalisation and Beyond: Public Sector Residential Care 1965-1990 by Leonie Stella
4. The Response of the Law to Intellectual Disability in Western Australia 1829-1993 by Moira Rayner and Judith Cockram
5. Crime and Punishment: Justice Administration and People with Intellectual Disabilities 1900-1989 by Guy Hall and Jillian Bavin-Mizzi
6. Doctors, Psychologists and Educators: The Professions and Intellectual Disability by Kylie Carman-Brown and Charlie Fox
7. Making a New Profession: Social Trainers and Intellectual Disability by Norman Megalzey
8. Discourses of Disability by Errol Cocks and Matthew Allen

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