Community members’ responses to the elective hysterectomy of an intellectually disabled girl

Abstract The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (2007) guarantees all intellectually disabled women the right to full bodily integrity. However, non-therapeutic sterilisations continue to be proposed as a means of managing the support needs of some members of this g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carol Hamilton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Griffith University 2011-06-01
Series:Journal of Social Inclusion
Online Access:https://josi.journals.griffith.edu.au/index.php/inclusion/article/view/144