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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"The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy."
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"The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy."
--Edward Berkowitz, The Journal of American History
-The Rothmans deserve commendation... for taking some chances and for illustrating some of the realities that underlie contemporary public policy.-
--Edward Berkowitz, The Journal of American History
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia University. His books include Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making, Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care, and with Sheila M. Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement. Sheila M. Rothman is professor of public health in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her books include Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present, and Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the and the Experience of Illness in American History.
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