Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights

A 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.

About the author

Dennis B. Downey is Emeritus Professor of History at Millersville University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including A Season of Renewal: The Columbian Exposition and Victorian America and Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town.James W. Conroy is President of the Center for Outcome Analysis and President of the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance. He is the author of more than a dozen longitudinal studies, including one on Pennhurst.

Summary

A 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.

Product details

• Authors: James W. Conroy, James W. (Center for Outcome Analysis ) Conroy, Dennis B. Downey, Dennis B. (Professor of History Downey, Downey Dennis B.
• Assisted by: Ginny Thornburgh (Foreword), Thornburgh Dick (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2020
• EAN: 9780271086033
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08603-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Schaubilder
• Series: Keystone Books
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / History, History of Medicine, Disability: social aspects, History of the Americas