Fleischer, Doris Zames.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
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Notes:

• Updated ed. of: The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation. 2001.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-307) and index.
• 1. 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 — 2. 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 — 3. 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 and the new disability activism — 4. 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 –
• 5. 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 — 6. 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 — 7. 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 — 8. 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 –
• 9. 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 — 10. 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 — 11. 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 — 12. Identity and culture — Three strands of the movement — Disability pride: celebrating difference — Changing perceptions and the media — Assessment of the movement — A stealth movement — 13. 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.

Subjects:

• People with disabilities — Civil rights — United States.
• Discrimination against people with disabilities — United States.

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