California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970
Author:   Eileen V. Wallis
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   353
Publication Date:   01 April 2023
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Author:   Eileen V. Wallis
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.606kg
ISBN:  

9783031217135


ISBN 10:   3031217136
Pages:   353
Publication Date:   01 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Chapter 1.Introduction.- Chapter 2.“Friendless and Homeless:” The Gold Rush to 1870.- Chapter 3. “A Sin and a Shame:” Regional Institutional Development in the Late 19th Century.- Chapter 4. “Helpless and Delinquent”: The Los Angeles Psychopathic Association.- Chapter 5. “The Thankless Task:” Parole, Eugenics; and the Institutionalization of the Addicted.- Chapter 6. “Their Responsibility:” From the Great Depression to the Birth of the Community Clinic.- Chapter 7. “To Promote Mental Health:” The Bureaucracy of Disability at Midcentury.- Chapter 8. “Whistling in the Dark:” California’s Politics of Disability Transformed.- Chapter 9. California after the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.- Conclusion.

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Eileen V. Wallis is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, in Pomona, California, USA. Her research focus is the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West, with a focus on California. She is particularly interested in the intersections of race, gender, disability, and class, and the ways in which those variables interacted with structures of power during the Progressive era. 

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