The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation /

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Tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.

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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 --
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 --
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 --
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.
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 --
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 --
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.
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 --
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 --
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 --
Three strands of the movement --
Disability pride: celebrating difference --
Changing perceptions and the media --
Assessment of the movement --
A stealth movement --
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.
1. Verfasser:
Fleischer, Doris Zames
Weitere Verfasser:
Zames, Frieda
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Ausgabe:
Updated ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
Umfang:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Updated ed. of: The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation. 2001.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-307) and index.
ISBN:
9786613196361
9781283196369
1283196360
9781439907450
1439907455
Schlagworte:
Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States.
People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States.
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