The Disability Rights Movement : From Charity to Confrontation

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.

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Other authors / contributors: Fleischer, Doris Zames (Author), Zames, Frieda, 1932-2005 (Author)
Edition:Updated ed.
Imprint: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2011]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States.
United States
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Table of 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.

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