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The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation

Title
  1. The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames.
Published by
  1. Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2001.
Author
  1. Fleischer, Doris Zames.

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Additional authors
  1. Zames, Frieda, 1932-2005.
Description
  1. xxix, 278 pages; 26 cm
Subject
  1. Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States
  2. United States
  3. People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States
  4. Disabled Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
  5. Civil Rights
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-264) and index.