Description: The Willowbrook Wars Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community Author(s): David J. Rothman Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States Imprint: AldineTransaction ISBN-13: 9780202307572, 978-0202307572 Synopsis 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 conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled, and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree, with the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented assignment in six years. From 1975 to 1982, David and Sheila Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of mental disabilities care. Would the state live up to its agreement without "dumping" residents into other nightmarish institutions? Would the lawyers prove as interested in meeting client needs as in securing client rights? Could a tradition-bound bureaucracy create a new network of community services? And finally, would a governor and a legislature tolerate such outside intervention, and if so, for how long? In answering these questions, The Willowbrook Wars takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary, the fate of the underprivileged, and the potential for social justice. In their new afterword, the authors bring the story up to date, describing the results of the closing of the institution in 1987 from the experiences of integrating the former residents into communities to the legal battles between the state of New York and advocates for the mentally handicapped.
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Book Title: The Willowbrook Wars
Number of Pages: 427 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Willowbrook Wars: Bringing the Mentally Disabled Into the Community
Publisher: Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Disability, Healthcare System
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 590 g
Type: Textbook
Author: David J. Rothman
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
