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Author Longmore, Paul K

Title Why I burned my book and other essays on disability / Paul K. Longmore
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)
Series American subjects
American subjects
Contents 1. Disability watch -- 2. The life of Randolph Bourne and the need for a history of disabled people -- 3. Uncovering the hidden history of disabled people -- 4. The league of the physically handicapped and the great depression : a case study in the new disability history -- 5. The disability rights moment : activism in the 1970s and beyond -- 6. Film reviews -- 7. Screening stereotypes : images of disabled people in television and motion pictures -- 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, assisted suicide, and social prejudice -- 9. The resistance : the disability rights movement and assisted suicide -- 10. Medical decision making and people with disabilities : a clash of cultures -- 11. The second phase : from disability rights to disability culture -- 12. Princeton and Peter Singer -- 13. Why I burned my book
Summary "'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. gnd
Subject People with disabilities -- United States -- History
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History
Sociology of disability -- United States
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Disabled Persons -- United States -- history
Disabled Persons -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Physical Impairments.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities -- Civil rights.
Sociology of disability.
Behinderter Mensch.
Behinderung.
People with disabilities -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Sociology of disability -- United States.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays.
History.
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002035272
ISBN 9781592137756
159213775X
1592130232
9781592130238
9781592130245
1592130240
9786611093594
6611093591
1281093599
9781281093592