{"product_id":"pennhurst-and-the-struggle-for-disability-rights-keystone-books-9780271086033","title":"Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive study of the history of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908–87), a state-operated institution in Pennsylvania for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Explores Pennhurst’s enduring impact on the disability civil rights movement in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The singular importance of Pennhurst—to people with disabilities, American history, and humanity’s long arc toward justice—cannot be overstated. Wisely, brilliantly, the editors of this multilayered and illuminating book chose to tell the tale of this one place in a way that encompasses all it epitomized, from eminent physicians urging tragic beliefs to the flesh and blood individuals who lived with (and loved amidst) the consequences, from the brave reporters who exposed the concealed and the cruel to the dogged advocates who battled for rights and freedom. Even the ghastly misuse of the site in our own time—as infuriating as it is emblematic—is laid bare. I wish every politician with a conscience, indeed, every person with a heart and a soul, would pick up this book. A compelling feat of truth-telling, it is essential reading for all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rachel Simon,author of \u003ci\u003eRiding the Bus with My Sister \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Beautiful Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this historical study of Pennhurst, the authors take us from the fears about disabilities raised by eugenics to the horrors of institutional life, then to the central role of Pennhurst in litigation that ushered in a new era of disability rights, and finally back to fears, this time by the use of some of the property for “haunted” Halloween tours that play on the collective memories embedded in its institutional walls. The book is a much more fitting remembrance of those who fought and survived.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William C. Gaventa,author of \u003ci\u003eDisability and Spirituality: Recovering Wholeness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I wish every politician with a conscience, indeed, every person with a heart and a soul, would pick up this book. A compelling feat of truth-telling, it is essential reading for all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rachel Simon,author of \u003ci\u003eRiding the Bus with My Sister \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Beautiful Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Speaks to the connections between disability history and public history and provides insight and context into a key place and moment in the movement for disability rights. The book deserves a wide audience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Steven Noll \u003ci\u003eThe Public Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDick and Ginny Thornburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis B. Downey and James W. Conroy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Pennhurst in Time and Place\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Idea of Pennhurst: Eugenics and the Abandonment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Hope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis B. Downey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Living in a World Apart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Gregory Pirmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Veil of Secrecy: A Legacy of Exploitation and Abuse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames W. Conroy and Dennis B. Downey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: The Power of Advocacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Suffer the Little Children: An Oral Remembrance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Baldini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Rise of Family and Organizational Advocacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Albert-Herman and Elizabeth Coppola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. From PARC to Pennhurst: The Legal Argument for Equality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith A. Gran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Rise of Self-Advocacy: A Personal Remembrance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Friedman and Nancy K. Nowell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Pennhurst Longitudinal Study and Public Policy: How We Learned That People Were Better Off\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames W. Conroy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: A View to the Future\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Touring the Ecology of the Abandoned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeath Hofmeister and Chris Peecho Cadwalader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Preservation: A Case Study of Collective Conscience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Guest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. The Final Indignity and the Dawning of Hope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Smith Beitiks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis B. Downey and James W. 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