From good will to civil rights : transforming federal disability policy / Richard K. Scotch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scotch, Richard K., 1951-

Series:

Health Society And Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Government policy--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. The first edition of From Good Will to Civil Rights traced the changes in federal disability policy, focusing on the development and implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Ri

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 A Civil Rights Law for Disabled People; 2 From Good Will to Civil Rights; 3 The Genesis of Section 504; 4 Writing the Regulation for Section 504; 5 Advocacy and the HEW Regulation; 6 Policy Dissemination; 7 Symbolic Victories: The Evolution of Section 504; Epilogue; Appendixes; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-209) and index.

ISBN:

9781282047204

1282047205

9781439901007

1439901007

OCLC:

326878073