Disability and Vulnerability: Challenging the Capacity/Incapacity Binary
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Psychopharmacology and Intellectual Disability: The Continuing Dilemmas of "Challenging Behaviour"
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Policy and Society
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1474-7464,1475-3073
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746417000069