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| Title: | Why I burned my book and other essays on disability / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul K Longmore |
| ISBN: | 1592130232 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781592130238 (cloth : alk. paper); 1592130240 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781592130245 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: 1. Disability watch -- 2. The life of Randolph Bourne and the need for a history of disabled people -- 3. Uncovering the hidden history of disabled people -- 4. The league of the physically handicapped and the great depression : a case study in the new disability history -- 5. The disability rights moment : activism in the 1970s and beyond -- 6. Film reviews -- 7. Screening stereotypes : images of disabled people in television and motion pictures -- 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, assisted suicide, and social prejudice -- 9. The resistance : the disability rights movement and assisted suicide -- 10. Medical decision making and people with disabilities : a clash of cultures -- 11. The second phase : from disability rights to disability culture -- 12. Princeton and Peter Singer -- 13. Why I burned my book. Content: Transition systems for youth -- Potential for independence -- Legislative initiatives for independent living -- Trends in program design -- Profiles of emancipated youth: 10-year outcomes -- Education, employment, and income -- Preparing adolescent wards for independence in foster family settings -- Placement restrictiveness and educational achievement among emancipated foster youth -- Preparing foster wards with disabilities for self-sufficiency -- Effectiveness of transitional apartments -- Effectiveness of mentors for adolescents in placement -- Wraparound services, subsidies, and mentors as social capital -- Transitional services for emancipated foster youth -- Independent-living housing issues -- Community college opportunities for older foster youth: the California profile -- Personal responsibility: A goal for adolescents in foster care -- Wraparound services : facilitating the transition from foster care to young adulthood -- Assessment: An interpretive summary. |
| Description: | ix, 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Disability watch -- 2. The life of Randolph Bourne and the need for a history of disabled people -- 3. Uncovering the hidden history of disabled people -- 4. The league of the physically handicapped and the great depression : a case study in the new disability history -- 5. The disability rights moment : activism in the 1970s and beyond -- 6. Film reviews -- 7. Screening stereotypes : images of disabled people in television and motion pictures -- 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, assisted suicide, and social prejudice -- 9. The resistance : the disability rights movement and assisted suicide -- 10. Medical decision making and people with disabilities : a clash of cultures -- 11. The second phase : from disability rights to disability culture -- 12. Princeton and Peter Singer -- 13. Why I burned my book.; Transition systems for youth -- Potential for independence -- Legislative initiatives for independent living -- Trends in program design -- Profiles of emancipated youth: 10-year outcomes -- Education, employment, and income -- Preparing adolescent wards for independence in foster family settings -- Placement restrictiveness and educational achievement among emancipated foster youth -- Preparing foster wards with disabilities for self-sufficiency -- Effectiveness of transitional apartments -- Effectiveness of mentors for adolescents in placement -- Wraparound services, subsidies, and mentors as social capital -- Transitional services for emancipated foster youth -- Independent-living housing issues -- Community college opportunities for older foster youth: the California profile -- Personal responsibility: A goal for adolescents in foster care -- Wraparound services : facilitating the transition from foster care to young adulthood -- Assessment: An interpretive summary. |
| Responsibility: | Paul K. Longmore. |
| Year: | 2003. |
| Publisher: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2002035272 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1568; Dewey No.: 305.9/0816/0973 |
| Series: | American subjects; Variation: American subjects. |
| OCLC No.: | 50693024 |
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