The Willowbrook Wars: Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community
Author:   David J. Rothman ,  Sheila M. Rothman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Edition:   Revised ed.
ISBN:  

9780202307572


Pages:   427
Publication Date:   31 August 2004
Format:   Paperback
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This book is a dramatic and illuminating account of the extraordinary effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. It takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary, the fate of the underprivileged, and the potential for social justice.

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Author:   David J. Rothman ,  Sheila M. Rothman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780202307572


ISBN 10:   0202307573
Pages:   427
Publication Date:   31 August 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy. </p> --Edward Berkowitz, <em>The Journal of American History</em></p>


-The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy.- --Edward Berkowitz, The Journal of American History


The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy. --Edward Berkowitz, The Journal of American History


<p> The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy. <p> --Edward Berkowitz, The Journal of American History


Author Information

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia University. His books include Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making, Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care, and with Sheila M. Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement. Sheila M. Rothman is professor of public health in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her books include Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present, and Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the and the Experience of Illness in American History.

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