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Where the evidence leads : an autobiography
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ISBN: 082297388X 0822961121 0822942208 9780822973881 9780822961123 Year: 2003 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Youth, pornography and the Internet
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ISBN: 0309082749 9786610184019 1280184019 0309508932 9780309508933 9780309082747 030917015X 9780309170154 9781280184017 6610184011 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Asking the right questions about electronic voting
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ISBN: 9780309100243 0309100240 9786610447282 1280447281 0309653940 9780309653947 0309181380 9780309181389 9781280447280 6610447284 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,


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Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights

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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.

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