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A first-hand account of the scandal at New York's Willowbrook Home for the handicapped, the five-year court battle that followed, and the fate of the home's 5,400 handicapped residents
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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 Experience of Illness in American History.
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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
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- PublisherHarper Row
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0060152346
- ISBN 13 9780060152345
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages405
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