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Western Australia - Publications Details
Book
- Author
- Cocks, Errol
- Title
- Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia
- Imprint
- Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996
- Description
'Under Blue Skies' was edited by Errol Cocks, Charlie Fox, Mark Brogan and Michael Lee. Chapters are written by a range of authors and cover legislation, institutions, services key events and experiences of intellectually disability in Western Australia from 1829 to 1995.
- Libraries Australia Catalogue Entry
- http://nla.gov.au/andb.bib-an12819414
Related Publications
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- Gillgren, Christina, 'Once a Defective, always a Defective: Public Sector Residential Care 1900-1965', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 53-91. Details
- Megahey, Norman, 'Living in Fremantle Asylum: The Colonial Experience of Disability 1829-1900', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 13-52. Details
- Rayner, Moira and Cockram, Judith, 'The Response of the Law to Intellectual Disability in Western Australia 1829-1993', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 137-165. Details
- Stella, Leonie, 'Normalisation and Beyond: Public Sector Residential Care 1965-1990', in Errol Cocks (ed.), Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 92-136. Details