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From charity to confrontation is an excellent primer on a wide variety of current disability issues, with a good summary of each, across the range of disabilitiesexcept, of course, psychiatric disabilities. The disability rights movement from charity to confrontation. The disability rights movement by fleischer, doris ebook. The disability rights movement is a global social movement to secure equal opportunities and. A brief history of the disability rights movement university of new. It is an interesting paradox that although political activists in the disability rights movement.
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