Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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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