The Disability Rights Movement From Charity to Confrontation

In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disab...

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Hlavní autoři: Fleischer, Doris Zames, Zames, Frieda
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2011
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Civil Rights
Disabled Persons
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées
Droits
Droits de l'homme
legislation & jurisprudence
People with disabilities
People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States
Personnes handicapées
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Social Discrimination
Sociology
United States
United States
États-Unis
ISBN:1439907439, 9781439907436, 9781439907443, 1439907447, 9781439907450, 1439907455
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  • Front Matter Table of Contents Personal Notes Preface to the Updated Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Chronology Abbreviations and Acronyms Chapter One: “Wheelchair Bound” and “The Poster Child” Chapter Two: Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign Chapter Three: Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living Chapter Four: Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Chapter Five: The Struggle for Change: Chapter Six: The Americans with Disabilities Act Chapter Seven: Access to Jobs and Health Care Chapter Eight: “Not Dead Yet” and Physician-Assisted Suicide Chapter Nine: Disability and Technology Chapter Ten: Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights Chapter Eleven: Education: Chapter Twelve: Identity and Culture Chapter Thirteen: Disability Rights in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index Back Matter
  • Contents Personal Notes Preface to the Updated Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Chronology Abbreviations and Acronyms 1. “Wheelchair Bound” and “The Poster Child” 2. Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign 3. Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living 4. Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Section 504 5. The Struggle for Change: In the Streets and in the Courts 6. The Americans with Disabilities Act 7. Access to Jobs and Health Care 8. “Not Dead Yet” and Physician-Assisted Suicide 9. Disability and Technology 10. Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights 11. Education: Integration in the Least Restrictive Environment 12. Identity and Culture 13. Disability Rights in the Twenty-First Century Notes Index Title Page, Copyright Cover
  • Intro -- Contents -- Personal Notes -- Preface to the Updated Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. "Wheelchair Bound" and "The Poster Child" -- 2. Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign -- 3. Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living -- 4. Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Section 504 -- 5. The Struggle for Change: In the Streets and in the Courts -- 6. The Americans with Disabilities Act -- 7. Access to Jobs and Health Care -- 8. "Not Dead Yet" and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- 9. Disability and Technology -- 10. Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights -- 11. Education: Integration in the Least Restrictive Environment -- 12. Identity and Culture -- 13. Disability Rights in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index
  • Evaluation of the Independent Living Movement --
  • A two-tier health care system --
  • Legalizing disability discrimination --
  • A "quiet revolution" --
  • Changing perceptions and the media --
  • A stealth movement --
  • Media, technology, and disability culture --
  • The myth of "the disability lobby" --
  • Olmstead and the Community Choice Act --
  • Blindness and deafness: a comparison --
  • Pain management --
  • Physician-assisted suicide --
  • FDR, the "cured cripple" --
  • The ADA and Section 504 --
  • Affirmative Action --
  • Wheelchair ingenuity --
  • Disability and technology --
  • Netherlands "slippery slope" vs. U.S. "political strategy" --
  • Focus on cure: a pernicious message --
  • Changing views of disability in the United States --
  • The March of Dimes --
  • The Supreme Court and the ADA --
  • Falling through the cracks: children with special health needs --
  • Activists assess progress in securing disability rights --
  • NYC Subway gates: a controversy in the blind community --
  • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest --
  • Health policy reforms --
  • "Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide.
  • Deinstitutionalization and independent living.
  • Psychopharmacology --
  • Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) --
  • Title II: Public services (State and local government) --
  • The computer as an accommodation --
  • Atomic and chemical guinea pigs --
  • Holding a nation accountable --
  • Disability and technology.
  • Title I: Employment --
  • Long-term care in the community --
  • A clash of cultures --
  • The criminalization of people with psychiatric disabilities --
  • The struggle for change : in the streets and in the courts --
  • Deafness as culture --
  • Title II: Public transportation --
  • Mangled care --
  • An arbitrary patchwork --
  • The distinction between sever disability and terminal illness.
  • Section 504 as a spur to political organizing --
  • American Sign Language --
  • The Lighthouse --
  • Education: integration in the least restrictive environment.
  • A microcosm of the real world --
  • Identity and culture.
  • The pattern of denial --
  • Perceptions of disability.
  • Mobility for blind people: guide dogs and white canes --
  • ACCD, propelling Section 504 --
  • Independent living as an extension of rehabilitation --
  • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund --
  • Groundbreaking disability rights legislation: Section 504.
  • Education of deaf children --
  • Somnolent Samantha --
  • Dangers of an inflexible law --
  • Accessible transit and New York City --
  • NFB: trailblazer for sections 504 and 501 --
  • Early accessibility efforts in the colleges --
  • Seeing by touch, hearing by sign --
  • Accessible taxis --
  • The Internet and a miracle baby --
  • The Section 504 demonstrations --
  • Paralyzed veterans of America --
  • Disability pride: celebrating difference --
  • The transbus controversy --
  • Disability rights in the Twenty-first Century.
  • An appropriate identity --
  • Sign language and oralism --
  • Title V: Miscellaneous --
  • First-year report on physician-assisted suicide in Oregon --
  • Rehabilitation: the man, not the wound --
  • The IDEA in the courts --
  • Education: integration in the least restrictive environment --
  • The politics of physician-assisted suicide --
  • Toward a new vision: three queries --
  • NFB and ACB: different approaches to blindness --
  • Backlash --
  • Access to jobs and health care --
  • Parent-initiated childhood disability organizations --
  • Disability employment in corporate America --
  • The poster child and the telethon --
  • Justice for All --
  • Different approaches to psychiatric disabilities --
  • Title III: Public accommodation --
  • Employment of people with psychiatric disabilities --
  • The nexus between jobs and health care --
  • The Cherry lawsuit for the Section 504 regulations --
  • Disabled in action.
  • The Eugenics Movement and euthanasia --
  • Sheltered workshops --
  • The Gallaudet University uprising --
  • Independent living a nd the new disability activism --
  • The Supreme Court --
  • People with special needs in managed care --
  • Legislation and self-advocacy --
  • Three strands of the movement --
  • League of the physically handicapped --
  • California accessible buses --
  • Employment discrimination --
  • Teletypewriters and relay systems --
  • Disabled veterans claim their rights --
  • Braille and talking books --
  • Bioethical dilemmas --
  • Enforcing the IDEA: early efforts --
  • Identity and culture --
  • The need for disability rights attorneys --
  • Groundbreaking disability rights legislation : Section 504 --
  • ADAPT --
  • The special education controversy --
  • Employment of people with developmental disabilities --
  • Disabled veterans claim their rights.
  • Every American's insurance policy --
  • Helen Keller, the social reformer --
  • "Visitability" --
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • Deinstitutionalization and independent living --
  • Title IV: National Telephone Relay Service --
  • Medical and genetic information --
  • Automobiles: opening "new vistas" --
  • Mainstreaming public transit --
  • Universal design --
  • Transforming scientific orthodoxy: AIDS activism --
  • Proliferation of the independent living concept --
  • AIDS activists --
  • The one-step campaign --
  • "Wheelchair bound" and the "the poster child" --
  • Access to jobs and health care.
  • Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement --
  • Accessible classrooms and laboratories --
  • "A better solution" --
  • Jacobus tenBroek and the National Federation of the blind --
  • Psychiatric survivors and consumers --
  • Disability rights attorneys speak --
  • Enacting the ADA --
  • The civil rights significance of accessible transportation.
  • The new eugenics --
  • Recognizing disability as a civil rights issue --
  • "Wheelchair bound" and the "the poster child".
  • "Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide --
  • Seeing by touch, hearing by sign.
  • "Slash, burn, and poison" --
  • Opposition to "the death train" --
  • Assessment of the movement --
  • Disable veterans --
  • Black deaf advocates --