1st Edition
The Willowbrook Wars Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community
By David J. Rothman
Copyright 2005
427 Pages
by
Routledge
428 Pages
by
Routledge
417 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and... Read more
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
Biography
David J. Rothman
