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The Disability Rights Movement : From Charity to Confrontation /
Tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
©2011.
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| Edición: | Updated ed. |
| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.