Reconsidering capacity and protection in psychosocial and intellectual disability care. From hard cases to good laws. KU Leuven
May we intervene in the sexual life of a person with a psychosocial or intellectual disability if we suspect abuse? Traditionally we may if he is unable to decide. However, since the rise of the social model of disability and the UN Disability Convention, this is no longer certain. The capacity to make a decision must not be denied because of adisability. This raises a normative debate on the desirability of the social model in hard cases. Do we ...