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Natalie Cobbing Travel Fellowship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Bambrick
M. Bambrick*
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Mental Handicap, Department of Mental Handicap, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH and Aston Hall, Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire
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In 1987–88 I undertook a research project, to look at parental views on sterilisation for their mentally handicapped offspring. This project was prompted by the then recent decision of the High Court in the UK, which authorised the sterilisation of a 17-year-old girl with mental handicap, and created much controversy and debate at the time. Very little was known about the views of parents as a group in the UK on this issue, and hence the decision of our Department of Mental Handicap in Nottingham to explore this area (Bambrick & Roberts, in press).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , March 1992 , pp. 161 - 163
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References

Bambrick, M. & Roberts, G. E. Sterilisation of people with mental handicap: the views of parents. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research (in press).Google Scholar
Macklin, R. & Gaylin, W. (eds) (1981) Mental Retardation and Sterilisation. New York: Plenum Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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