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The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation
Title
The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames.
ISBN
9781439907436
1439907439
9781439907443
1439907447
9781439907450
1439907455
Edition
Updated edition.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 323 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
Variant and related titles
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-307) and index.
Contents
"Wheelchair bound" and the "the poster child". FDR, the "cured cripple"
League of the physically handicapped
The March of Dimes
Parent-initiated childhood disability organizations
The poster child and the telethon
Changing views of disability in the United States
Seeing by touch, hearing by sign. Blindness and deafness: a comparison
Sign language and oralism
Braille and talking books
Sheltered workshops
The Lighthouse
Mobility for blind people: guide dogs and white canes
Jacobus tenBroek and the National Federation of the blind
NYC Subway gates: a controversy in the blind community
NFB: trailblazer for sections 504 and 501
NFB and ACB: different approaches to blindness
Deafness as culture
American Sign Language
The Gallaudet University uprising
Black deaf advocates
Education of deaf children
Helen Keller, the social reformer
Deinstitutionalization and independent living. Early accessibility efforts in the colleges
Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement
Proliferation of the independent living concept
Independent living as an extension of rehabilitation
Evaluation of the Independent Living Movement
Independent living a nd the new disability activism
Groundbreaking disability rights legislation: Section 504. The Cherry lawsuit for the Section 504 regulations
Section 504 as a spur to political organizing
ACCD, propelling Section 504
The Section 504 demonstrations
The transbus controversy
Accessible transit and New York City
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
California accessible buses
Mainstreaming public transit
The civil rights significance of accessible transportation.
Disabled in action. New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Recognizing disability as a civil rights issue
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
The need for disability rights attorneys
ADAPT
Justice for All
The Americans with Disabilities Act. Enacting the ADA
The ADA and Section 504
Title I: Employment
Title III: Public accommodation
Title II: Public services (State and local government)
Title II: Public transportation
Title IV: National Telephone Relay Service
Title V: Miscellaneous
The Supreme Court and the ADA
The myth of "the disability lobby"
Backlash
Every American's insurance policy
Access to jobs and health care. Employment discrimination
Affirmative Action
Disability employment in corporate America
Employment of people with developmental disabilities
Employment of people with psychiatric disabilities
The criminalization of people with psychiatric disabilities
Different approaches to psychiatric disabilities
Mangled care
A two-tier health care system
People with special needs in managed care
An arbitrary patchwork
Falling through the cracks: children with special health needs
Long-term care in the community
Health policy reforms
The nexus between jobs and health care
"Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide. Opposition to "the death train"
The Supreme Court
AIDS activists
Pain management
Focus on cure: a pernicious message
The Eugenics Movement and euthanasia
The politics of physician-assisted suicide
Netherlands "slippery slope" vs. U.S. "political strategy"
First-year report on physician-assisted suicide in Oregon
Legalizing disability discrimination
Dangers of an inflexible law
"A better solution"
The distinction between sever disability and terminal illness.
Disability and technology. Universal design
Accessible taxis
Teletypewriters and relay systems
A clash of cultures
The one-step campaign
Wheelchair ingenuity
Accessible classrooms and laboratories
The computer as an accommodation
Psychopharmacology
Bioethical dilemmas
The Internet and a miracle baby
Medical and genetic information
"Slash, burn, and poison"
Transforming scientific orthodoxy: AIDS activism
Toward a new vision: three queries
Disabled veterans claim their rights. Legislation and self-advocacy
Rehabilitation: the man, not the wound
Paralyzed veterans of America
Automobiles: opening "new vistas"
The pattern of denial
Atomic and chemical guinea pigs
Holding a nation accountable
Education: integration in the least restrictive environment. A "quiet revolution"
Enforcing the IDEA: early efforts
An appropriate identity
The IDEA in the courts
The special education controversy
Somnolent Samantha
A microcosm of the real world
Identity and culture. Three strands of the movement
Disability pride: celebrating difference
Changing perceptions and the media
Assessment of the movement
A stealth movement
Disability rights in the Twenty-first Century. Olmstead and the Community Choice Act
"Visitability"
Psychiatric survivors and consumers
The new eugenics
Physician-assisted suicide
Media, technology, and disability culture
Disable veterans
Activists assess progress in securing disability rights
Disability rights attorneys speak
Perceptions of disability.
"Wheelchair bound" and the "the poster child"
Seeing by touch, hearing by sign
Deinstitutionalization and independent living
Groundbreaking disability rights legislation : Section 504
The struggle for change : in the streets and in the courts
Access to jobs and health care
"Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide
Disability and technology
Disabled veterans claim their rights
Education: integration in the least restrictive environment
Identity and culture
Disability rights in the Twenty-first Century.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Disabled Persons - legislation & jurisprudence
Civil Rights
Social Discrimination
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