The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation /

Fleischer, Doris Zames,

The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames. - xxix, 278 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Wheelchair bound" and "the poster child" -- Seeing by touch, hearing by sign -- Deinstitutionalization and independent living -- Groundbreaking disability rights legislation : section 504 -- struggle for change : in the streets and in the courts -- American with Disabilities Act -- Access to jobs and health care -- "Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide -- Disability and technology -- Disabled veterans claim their rights -- Education : integration in the least restrictive environment -- Identity and culture. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The 6. The 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

1566398118 9781566398114 1566398126 9781566398121

00039282


People with disabilities--Civil rights--United States
Discrimination against people with disabilities--United States

HV1553 / .F58 2001

323.3

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