Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability

Foreword - Robert Dawidoff Introduction Part I: Analyses and Reconstructions 1. Disability Watch 2. The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People 3. Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People 4. The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History 5. The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970s and Beyond Part II: Images and Reflections 6. Film Reviews 7. Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures Part III: Ethics and Advocacy 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, Assisted Suicide, and Social Prejudice 9. The Resistance: The Disability Rights Movement and Assisted Suicide 10. Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures Part IV: Protests and Forecasts 11. The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture 12. Princeton and Peter Singer 13. Why I Burned My Book Index

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