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Title

The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames.

Author

Fleischer, Doris Zames

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Zames, Frieda, 1932-2005

Description

xxxv, 323 p.; 26 cm.

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.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Civil Rights
• Disabled Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
• Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States
• People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States
• Social Discrimination
• United States

Note

• Updated ed. of: The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation. 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-307) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. "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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 --
• 5. 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 -- 6. 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 -- 7. 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 -- 8. "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 --
• 9. 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 -- 10. 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 -- 11. 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 -- 12. Identity and culture -- Three strands of the movement -- Disability pride: celebrating difference -- Changing perceptions and the media -- Assessment of the movement -- A stealth movement -- 13. 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.

ISBN

• 9781439907436 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1439907439 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781439907443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1439907447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781439907450 (e-book)
• 1439907455 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011009199

OCLC

705568406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library