The Willowbrook wars : bringing the mentally disabled into the community
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The Willowbrook wars : bringing the mentally disabled into the community
Aldine Transaction, c2005
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注記
Previously published by Harper & Row in 1984 without subtitle
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled, and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree, with the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented assignment in six years.
From 1975 to 1982, David and Sheila Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of mental disabilities care. Would the state live up to its agreement without "dumping" residents into other nightmarish institutions? Would the lawyers prove as interested in meeting client needs as in securing client rights? Could a tradition-bound bureaucracy create a new network of community services? And finally, would a governor and a legislature tolerate such outside intervention, and if so, for how long? In answering these questions,
The Willowbrook Wars takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary, the fate of the underprivileged, and the potential for social justice. In their new afterword, the authors bring the story up to date, describing the results of the closing of the institution in 1987 from the experiences of integrating the former residents into communities to the legal battles between the state of New York and advocates for the mentally handicapped.
目次
- Going into the Field
- I: Making the Case
- 1: Welcome to Willowbrook
- 2: The Litigator as Reformer
- 3: A Keen Intellect and a Love of Man
- 4: The Numbers Game
- 5: Uninformed Consent
- II: The Biography of a Consent Decree
- 6: Ready, Fire, Aim
- 7: Who Cares?
- 8: Moving Minds
- 9: Eyes On
- 10: Life Chances
- III: All Together Now
- 11: Fighting the Plague
- IV: Coming Apart
- 12: Politics, Politics, Politics
- 13: Willowbrook Revisited
- Leaving the Field
- Afterword to the Aldine Transaction Edition: A Look Back on the Field
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