The disability rights movement : from charity to confrontation / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames.

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.

xxix, 278 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. "Wheelchair bound" and "the poster child" -- 2. Seeing by touch, hearing by sign -- 3. Deinstitutionalization and independent living -- 4. Groundbreaking disability rights legislation : section 504 -- 5. The struggle for change : in the streets and in the courts -- 6. The American with Disabilities Act -- 7. Access to jobs and health care -- 8. "Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide -- 9. Disability and technology -- 10. Disabled veterans claim their rights -- 11. Education : integration in the least restrictive environment -- 12. Identity and culture.