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Author O'Brien, Ruth Ann, 1960-

Title Crippled justice : the history of modern disability policy in the workplace / Ruth O'Brien.

Imprint Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.5909 Ob6c 2001    ---  Available
Description xiv, 288 p. : 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Deform'd, unfinish'd, and maladjusted" : the psychoanalytical model of disability -- From warehouses to rehabilitation centers : restoring the whole man -- From the whole man to the whole family : rehabilitating the poor -- An accident of history : rights and the passage of the Rehabilitation Act -- Court constraints on disability rights -- Two horns of a dilemma : the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Subject People with disabilities -- Employment -- United States -- History.
Vocational rehabilitation -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0226616606 (pbk.)
0226616592

 
    
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