In chapter 21 of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example, Poirot talks about a mentally disabled nephew: this proves to be a ruse so that he can find out about homes for the mentally unfit, and in Dumb Witness, Poirot tells of an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate the local nurses.

The " interventions " advocated and practiced by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf, developmentally disabled, promiscuous women, homosexuals and entire racial groups — such as the Roma and Jews — as " degenerate " or " unfit "; the segregation or institutionalisation of such individuals and groups, their sterilization, euthanasia, and in the extreme case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.

On his deathbed, Murad IV ordered the execution of his mentally disabled brother, Ibrahim I ( reigned 1640 – 48 ), which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line ; but the order was not carried out.

* 1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.

The mayors then forces everyone, himself included, to live in a big barrack, then to shave their heads to be equal to the bald, and then to become mentally disabled to equate intelligence downward.

In December 1968, the Journal of Medical Genetics published the first XYY review article — by Michael Court Brown, director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit — which reported no overrepresentation of XYY males in nationwide chromosome surveys of prisons and hospitals for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill in Scotland, and concluded that studies confined to institutionalized XYY males may be guilty of selection bias, and that long-term longitudinal prospective studies of newborn XYY boys were needed.

* The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables, a short film informing people about the need to educate the mentally disabled (" trainables ") about sex

* Direct Support Professional, a US term for specialists in education of the mentally disabled

Children and the mentally disabled may be incapable of consenting to certain acts, as they may lack the cognitive ability to understand their effects and implications, but this is not universally accepted.

The legal guardian of a ward may be able to give informed consent on behalf a child or person who is mentally disabled in some jurisdictions.

Sadly, even if the baby fights the toxins and is born, there are no guarantees that the baby will be physically or mentally healthy – often, babies become deformed or disabled.

Special needs trusts are created to ensure that beneficiaries who are developmentally disabled or mentally ill can receive inheritances without losing access to essential government benefits.

His general Perdiccas became the regent of all of Alexander's empire, while Alexander's physically and mentally disabled half-brother Arrhidaeus was chosen as the next king under the name Philip III of Macedon.

The Wyoming Department of Health Wyoming Life Resource Center ( WLRC ), originally the Wyoming State Training School ( WSTS ), a residential facility for physically and mentally disabled people, is located in Lander.

Two homeless people, deemed mentally disabled, accidentally knocked over a lit candle in an abandoned cold storage warehouse, igniting a conflagration.

* Monson is home to the Monson Developmental Center, a hospital for the mentally disabled that has served as a home for epileptics and people with other disorders since the 1800s.

Following, it converted to an institution for the developmentally disabled, then a home for the mentally impaired, and now operates as a facility for forensic patients.

In some jurisdictions, certain types of murders automatically qualify for capital punishment, but if the defendant in a capital case is sufficiently mentally disabled in the United States he or she may not be executed, for reasons described in Atkins v. Virginia, similar to those utilizing an insanity defense.

* Protective helmets for mentally disabled persons.

Also, the Aplerbeck Hospital in Dortmund transferred mentally and / or physically disabled patients for euthanasia at the Hadamar mental hospital as part of the Action T4 ( an additional 229 children were killed in the " Children's Specialist Department ", which was transferred from Marburg in 1941 ).

Following the war, she resumed her crusade to improve the care of prisoners, the disabled, and the mentally ill.

In other words, a mentally disabled or demented person who is operating at their own baseline level of mental ability would be expected to appear delirious without a baseline mental functional status against which to compare.

In other words, a mentally disabled or demented person who is operating at their own baseline level of mental ability might appear to be delirious without a baseline functional status against which to compare.

I remember my dad always seating a mentally handicapped man in the front row and hugging him.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

The concepts are the categories which have formed mentally according to our sensory input, for example the concepts " man ", " warm ", and " sweet ", etc.

* In 1987, genetic fingerprinting was used in criminal court for the first time in the trial of a man accused of unlawful intercourse with a mentally handicapped 14-year-old female who gave birth to her baby.

The Navy initially objected to the film's depiction of a mentally unbalanced man as the captain of one of its ships and the word " mutiny " in the film's title.

The Provisional IRA escalated its bombing campaign on England, and Whitelaw was personally embarrassed by the incident wherein a purportedly mentally ill man breached security at Buckingham Palace, gaining access to the Queen's Bedchamber.

* Roger Guenveur Smith as Smiley, a young, mentally impaired man who tries to sell pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

A 26 year old man was found mentally unfit to stand trial for the attack which resulted in serious injuries.

A mentally disturbed man had escaped from the local Concord asylum and, brandishing a club, entered the Pembroke schoolyard terrifying pupils who ran shrieking into the schoolhouse.

He played a mentally retarded man who had been a victim of the Nazi sterilization program testifying at the Nuremberg trials.

Instead Gladstone said in his speech in the Commons that he did not see why any man should not have the vote unless he was mentally incapacitated, but added that this would not come about unless the working class showed an interest in reform.

He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a mentally disabled man in Charly, an adaptation of the science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon.

Charlie Gordon ( Cliff Robertson ), a mentally retarded man with a strong desire to make himself smarter, has been attending night school for two years where he has been taught by Alice Kinnian ( Claire Bloom ) to read and write.

While living at a hotel in nearby Cambridge, Faithfull started an affair ( while still married to Brierly ) with a dual diagnosis ( mentally ill and drug dependent ) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of the flat they shared.

It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy.

Karl Childers ( Billy Bob Thornton ) is a mentally disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover.

On October 28, 2010, Brendon began a four-episode arc on ABC's Private Practice playing Lee McHenry, a mentally disturbed man who assaults Charlotte King.

In November 1667, Lower worked with Sir Edmund King, another student of Willis, to transfuse sheep's blood into a man who was mentally ill. Lower was interested in advancing science but also believed the man could be helped, either by the infusion of fresh blood or by the removal of old blood.

In a 1964 short fantasy story " A case of Identity " by Randall Garrett, one of the characters, a homicidal psychopath by nature, is mentally restrained by a spell called geas " which forces him to limit his activities to those which are not dangerous to his fellow man ".

All of his films have received critical acclaim and awards, with Oasis, a story involving a mentally ill man and a woman with cerebral palsy, winning the prestigious Director's Award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.

He joins Giygas, becoming his right-hand man because of the alien's mind controlling powers and because his father was physically and mentally abusive towards him and Picky.

I mentally confronted this with the opinion of the man at the Copenhagen University who knew the history of philosophy best, my teacher, Hans Brochner, who knew, so to speak, nothing of contemporary English and French philosophy, and did not think them worth studying.

They then find a mentally challenged man named Kazan, whom Holloway insists they bring along.