DEATH AND MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS

Haptoglobin phenotype frequencies in mentally retarded persons.

Haptoglobin phenotype frequencies for 887 unselected mentally retarded patients were within the range reported for normal European populations. Of these sera, 2% initially classified as anhaptoglobinemic by subjective appraisal of starch-gel electropherograms were subsequently shown to be hypohaptoglobinemic. This frequency of hypohaptoglobinemia is similar to that reported for normal populatio...

Residential Programming for Mentally Retarded Persons

Reproductive rights of mentally retarded persons.

Mental retardation denotes sub-average intellectual functioning, based on IQ, i.e. the inability of normal learning, accompanied by behavioral and developmental disorders. Persons with impairments (cognitive, motor, sensory or psychiatric) have often been, both through human history and today victims of discrimination and deprived of their basic human rights, both in the public and the private ...

Sterilization of mentally retarded persons: reproductive rights and family privacy.

Sterilization is one of the most frequently chosen forms of contraception in the world;1 many persons who do not want to have children select this simple, safe, and effective means of avoiding unwanted pregnancy. For individuals who are mentally disabled, however, sterilization has more ominous associations. Until recently, involuntary sterilization was used as a weapon of the state in the war ...

Treatment of obesity in mentally retarded persons: the rehabilitator's role.