Pennhurst and the struggle for disability rights / edited by Dennis B. Downey and James W. Conroy ; with a foreword by Dick and Ginny Thornburgh.
Contributor(s): Downey, Dennis B [editor.] | Conroy, James W [editor.].
Description: xviii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps.ISBN: 9780271086033.Subject(s): Intellectual disability facilities patients -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- History | Intellectual disability facilities patients -- Abuse of -- Pennsylvania -- History | Intellectual disability facilities patients -- Deinstitutionalization -- Pennsylvania -- History | Intellectual disability facilities patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- HistoryDDC classification: 362.2/10974813"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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