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The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation
- Authors:
- FLEISHER Doris Zames, ZAMES Freida
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
This book, a history of the American disability movement, documents the evolution of attitudes from isolation and charity to confrontation and rights; from sheltered workshops to independent living; from 'cripples' and 'invalids' to people with disabilities. Contents include: deinstitutionalisation and independent living; disability rights legislation; the struggle for change; access to jobs and health care; physician assisted suicide; disability and technology; disabled veterans; education; identity and culture.