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The Disability Rights Movement: From Deinstitutionalization to Self-Determination
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Product Description
This book provides a sound overview of the field of disabilities studies by integrating a review of the three major variations of disabilities: physical disabilities, cognitive disabilities and mental retardation. Author Duane Stroman reveals the evolving goals, key organizational actors, and many accomplishments of the disability rights movement. Stroman brings together, under one cover, the changing definitions of disability, the origins of deinstitutionalization of those with mental and physical disabilities and the current direction of the ever changing disability rights movement.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1437370 in Books
- Published on: 2003-03
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Editorial Reviews
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[A] useful resource for students interested in the broad social history of disability in the United States. (Mike Clear The Review Of Disability Studies )
Overall, this book makes some useful contributions to the study of disability policy and public policy. (Mark Sherry Contemporary Sociology )
[A] useful resource for students interested in the broad social history of disability in the United States..... (Mike Clear The Review Of Disability Studies )
About the Author
Duane F. Stroman is Professor of Sociology, Juniata College, Pennsylvania.
