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Crippled justice : the history of modern disability policy in the workplace
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Crippled justice : the history of modern disability policy in the workplace

Author: Ruth O'Brien
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c 2001.
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This text looks at how postwar cultural values affected the rights-orientated policy in the 1970s and how this affects judicial interpretations of provisions under the Americans with Disabilities  Read more...

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Title: Crippled justice : the history of modern disability policy in the workplace /
Database Name: WorldCat
All Authors / Contributors: Ruth O'Brien
ISBN: 0226616592; 9780226616599; 0226616606 (pbk.); 9780226616605 (pbk.)
Notes: Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content: "Deform'd, unfinish'd, and maladjusted" : the psychoanalytical model of disability -- From warehouses to rehabilitation centers : restoring the whole man -- From the whole man to the whole family : rehabilitating the poor -- An accident of history : rights and the passage of the Rehabilitation Act -- Court constraints on disability rights -- Two horns of a dilemma : the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Description: xiv, 288 p. : 24 cm.
Contents: "Deform'd, unfinish'd, and maladjusted" : the psychoanalytical model of disability -- From warehouses to rehabilitation centers : restoring the whole man -- From the whole man to the whole family : rehabilitating the poor -- An accident of history : rights and the passage of the Rehabilitation Act -- Court constraints on disability rights -- Two horns of a dilemma : the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Responsibility: Ruth O'Brien.
Year: c 2001.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,
Standard Numbers: LCCN: 2001001896; National Library: 101134760
Class Descriptors: LC Class No.: HD7256.U5; Dewey No.: 331.5/9/0973
OCLC No.: 46640593
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