Mentally speaking

Tort Liability of the Mentally Ill and Mentally Deficient

Theoretically Speaking

The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...

Humanly Speaking

one will no doubt be as successful as its predecessors. It lacks something in connected thought, for its "chapters" are in reality different lectures given to a wide variety of audiences and necessarily pitched at different levels under titles by no means mutually exclusive. The book is thus best read as a series of essays and these include, as in the author's other writings, sex and society, t...

The Mentally Subnormal

by Margaret Adams. Heinemann. 25s. Work with the mentally subnormal has always demanded a high degree of skill and the failure to recognise this reflects society's attitude to the handicap. This attitude is fortunately in process of being modified and Margaret Adams is to be congratulated on bringing together a team of people who can speak with such authority of the rewarding nature of work wit...

The Mentally Retarded Child

, This is a review of various Russian investigations concerning the clinical afl pathopsychological characteristics of the brain-damaged child. The Russians do A0 accept as mentally retarded those unsuccessful children who are generally found 1,1 schools for the educationally subnormal. Most of these are either "pedagogical'5 neglected" or have "partial or peripheral difficulties", e.g. defecti...