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What kind of ethical community will we have in the year 2000? What will be the nature of the social interactions between persons with mental retardation and the rest of us? (Does it already prejudice the case to base ethical questions on the distinction between “them” and “us”?) What role will those of “us” in the professional community play in shaping this social world? Specifically, will mental retardation researchers, scholars, and professionals be willing and able to contribute significantly to ethical discourse in the community?
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Dokecki, P.R. (1992). Ethics and Mental Retardation: Steps Toward the Ethics of Community. In: Rowitz, L. (eds) Mental Retardation in the Year 2000. Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9115-9_3
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