Pennhurst and the struggle for disability rights / edited by:Downey, Dennis B.,Conroy, James W., edited by Dennis B. Downey and James W. Conroy ; with a foreword by Dick and Ginny Thornburgh. - xviii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ;

"Keystone books."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index.

The idea of Pennhurst : eugenics and the abandonment of hope / Dennis B. Downey -- Living in a world apart / J. Gregory Pirmann -- The veil of secrecy : a legacy of exploitation and abuse / James W. Conroy and Dennis B. Downey -- Suffer the little children : an oral remembrance / Bill Baldini -- The rise of family and organizational advocacy / Janet Albert-Herman and Elizabeth Coppola -- From PARC to Pennhurst : the legal argument for equality / Judith A. Gran -- The rise of self-advocacy : a personal remembrance / Mark Friedman and Nancy K. Nowell -- The Pennhurst longitudinal study and public policy : how we learned that people were better off / James W. Conroy -- Touring the ecology of the abandoned / Heath Hofmeister and Chris Peecho Cadwalader -- Preservation : a case study of collective conscience / Nathaniel Guest -- The final indignity and the dawning of hope / Emily Smith Beitiks.

"A comprehensive study of the history of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-87), a state-operated institution in Pennsylvania for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Explores Pennhurst's enduring impact on the disability civil rights movement in America"--

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Intellectual disability facilities patients--Care--History--Pennsylvania
Intellectual disability facilities patients--Abuse of--History--Pennsylvania
Intellectual disability facilities patients--Deinstitutionalization--History--Pennsylvania
Intellectual disability facilities patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Pennsylvania

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