Title The disability rights movement : from deinstitutionalization to self-determination / Duane F. Stroman

Published Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2003

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Description vii, 264 pages ; 23 cm Contents Ch. 1. Defining and Counting Disability in a Changing World -- Ch. 2. A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement -- Ch. 3. The Disabled as a Minority Group -- Ch. 4. Wave I of Deinstitutionalization - Persons with Mental Illness -- Ch. 5. Wave II of Deinstitutionalization - Persons with Mental Retardation -- Ch. 6. Early and Multiple Waves of Change for Persons with Physical Disabilities -- Ch. 7. The Growing Wave of Self-Determination Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States. People with disabilities -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States -- History. Sociology of disability -- United States. LC no. 2002040910 ISBN 0761824804 cloth alkaline paper

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