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ERIC Number: EJ470670
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-6765
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Institutionalization, Involuntary Sterilization, and Mental Retardation: Profiles from the History of the Practice.
Smith, David J.; Polloway, Edward A.
Mental Retardation, v31 n4 p208-14 Aug 1993
This study analyzes data on 212 individuals with mental retardation who were sterilized while residents of the Central Virginia Training Center and discharged from the facility between 1969 and 1989. The analysis includes gender, age at and date of sterilization, level of mental retardation, and location of subsequent discharge. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age, Civil Rights, Contraception, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Residential Institutions, Sex
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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