Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Category : Mental health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Care of Institutionalized Mentally Disabled Persons: No distinct title
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Category : Mental health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Care of Institutionalized Mentally Disabled Persons: No distinct title
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Category : Mental health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
Author: HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)
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Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1972
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
Book Description
Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1972
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Author: Dennis B. Downey
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108636X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a “model institution” but was later revealed to be a nightmare, where medical experimentation and physical and psychological abuse were rampant. At its peak, more than 3,500 residents were confined at Pennhurst, supervised by a staff of fewer than 600. Using a blended narrative of essays and first-person accounts, this history of Pennhurst examines the institution from its founding during an age of Progressive reform to its present-day exploitation as a controversial Halloween attraction. In doing so, it traces a decades-long battle to reform the abhorrent school and hospital and reveals its role as a catalyst for the disability rights movement. Beginning in the 1950s, parent-advocates, social workers, and attorneys joined forces to challenge the dehumanizing conditions at Pennhurst. Their groundbreaking advocacy, accelerated in 1968 by the explosive televised exposé Suffer the Little Children, laid the foundation for lawsuits that transformed American jurisprudence and ended mass institutionalization in the United States. As a result, Pennhurst became a symbolic force in the disability civil rights movement in America and around the world. Extensively researched and featuring the stories of survivors, parents, and advocates, this compelling history will appeal both to those with connections to Pennhurst and to anyone interested in the history of institutionalization and the disability rights movement.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108636X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a “model institution” but was later revealed to be a nightmare, where medical experimentation and physical and psychological abuse were rampant. At its peak, more than 3,500 residents were confined at Pennhurst, supervised by a staff of fewer than 600. Using a blended narrative of essays and first-person accounts, this history of Pennhurst examines the institution from its founding during an age of Progressive reform to its present-day exploitation as a controversial Halloween attraction. In doing so, it traces a decades-long battle to reform the abhorrent school and hospital and reveals its role as a catalyst for the disability rights movement. Beginning in the 1950s, parent-advocates, social workers, and attorneys joined forces to challenge the dehumanizing conditions at Pennhurst. Their groundbreaking advocacy, accelerated in 1968 by the explosive televised exposé Suffer the Little Children, laid the foundation for lawsuits that transformed American jurisprudence and ended mass institutionalization in the United States. As a result, Pennhurst became a symbolic force in the disability civil rights movement in America and around the world. Extensively researched and featuring the stories of survivors, parents, and advocates, this compelling history will appeal both to those with connections to Pennhurst and to anyone interested in the history of institutionalization and the disability rights movement.
Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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