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Narrowed Lives: Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

by Vehmas Simo Vehmas, Mietola Reetta Mietola

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Stockholm University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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What is day-to-day life like for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities who live in group homes? How do they express their desires and wishes? How do care workers think about them and treat them? Do they have basic rights to activities most of us take for granted: activities like sociability, sexuality, and moral affirmation?

Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of what life is like in Finnish group homes where adults who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities live their lives. Based upon ethnographic data, it documents how care workers strive to guarantee individuality and dignity against a backdrop of scarce resources and misguided policies. This book argues that the lives of people with profound disabilities need not be determined by their impairments. It calls for a re-evaluation of disability policy so that its underlying conviction of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities as equally valuable fellow humans would materialise in practice.

This novel and accessible book combines ethnography and philosophy, and will be of interest to researchers and students in disability studies, special education and philosophy, as well as parents, professionals and policy makers.

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  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Stockholm University Press

  • Published

    June 2021

  • Weight

    323g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9789176351512

  • ISBN-10

    9176351513

  • Eden Code

    5589542

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