Making Life Work : Freedom and Disability in a Community Group Home /
Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration made more than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly portray group homes simply as settings of social control. Making Life Work/ is a clear-eyed ethnography of a New York City group home based on more than a year of field research. Jack Levinson show. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780816673391 |