TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downey,Dennis B.
AU  - Conroy,James W.
TI  - Pennhurst and the struggle for disability rights
SN  - 9780271086033
U1  - 362.2/10974813 
KW  - Intellectual disability facilities patients
KW  - Care
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - History
KW  - Abuse of
KW  - Deinstitutionalization
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - "Keystone books."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index; The idea of Pennhurst : eugenics and the abandonment of hope / Dennis B. Downey -- Living in a world apart / J. Gregory Pirmann -- The veil of secrecy : a legacy of exploitation and abuse / James W. Conroy and Dennis B. Downey -- Suffer the little children : an oral remembrance / Bill Baldini -- The rise of family and organizational advocacy / Janet Albert-Herman and Elizabeth Coppola -- From PARC to Pennhurst : the legal argument for equality / Judith A. Gran -- The rise of self-advocacy : a personal remembrance / Mark Friedman and Nancy K. Nowell -- The Pennhurst longitudinal study and public policy : how we learned that people were better off / James W. Conroy -- Touring the ecology of the abandoned / Heath Hofmeister and Chris Peecho Cadwalader -- Preservation : a case study of collective conscience / Nathaniel Guest -- The final indignity and the dawning of hope / Emily Smith Beitiks
N2  - "A comprehensive study of the history of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-87), a state-operated institution in Pennsylvania for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Explores Pennhurst's enduring impact on the disability civil rights movement in America"--
ER  -