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Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child ...
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Cancer is a word that brings fear to the very center of each person. Yet it need not be considered a death sentence as there are scores of cancer survivors. Vesta Beatty wants you to join her on her journey through the fear, anger, and sorrow of cancer into the hope and joy of life after cancer. She wants to share with you those things that were most helpful to her in her fight to conquer this horrid thing which had invaded her body and threatened her life. During this journey she hopes to bring you a few laughs and show you that she is not content with just the fact of her continuing life. On the contrary, she insists on LIFE in all caps.
This book is a lifetime of short stories that includes an autobiography and history of a woman, her immediate family, extended family, and pets. It also includes challenges, humor, tragedy, and historical lifetime events that spanned her life over a period of nearly seventy years. Truly, angels were in her life, walking with her along the path from childhood to old age.
Over the last half century, the science and practice of forensic science has undergone dramatic changes. Since the early 1960s the technological developments and their application to forensic science have been immense. Not only that, the application of science within a legal context and framework has developed enormously, as has the evaluation of the analytical results obtained. This unique text looks at the changes and challenges within forensic science over the last fifty years through a continuous diary of development witnessed by the editorials and relevant correspondence delivered through the UK Forensic Science Societies’ journal Science and Justice (formally the Journal of the Foren...
A behind-the-scenes account of the platinum musical producer and songwriter traces his first productions as a teen, his education in the music business, and his experiences with such artists as Lil Jon, Mariah Carey, and Kriss Kross.