Product Description: Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? Far more than most people imagine.Our Better Angels is a testament to the value of individuals with disabilities and the value that society could derive from being more welcoming to and inclusive of them...read more

Product Description: This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Historically, segregation and social isolation have been recurring responses to people considered defective or deficient in some way. And it is in the midst of such a society that special educator J. David Smith wrote this book, which presents critical historical and contemporary issues in mental retardation...read more

Product Description: Though she had normal intelligence, Carrie Buck was labeled "feebleminded" because she was young, poor, female and powerless. Her child was taken away and she was sterilized. Her landmark Supreme Court case, which led to the sterilization of 50,000 Americans and was cited as the precedent for the Nazi race hygiene program, is still making headlines today...read more

Product Description: This text focuses on integration and special education in the regular or general education classroom. The author gives a thorough overview of disability from a personal, historical, and multicultural perspective. The author weaves two case studies throughout the entire book, enhancing the readability of the text, as well as its teaching potential...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book tells the life story of John Lovelace, a 62-year old mentally retarded man. Tracing his life in and out of institutions, it chronicles the struggle of a socially imperfect person to find ways to become connected to the society which has been reluctant to grant him the right of participation...read more

Product Description: Inside story of America's first compulsory sterilization. Electrifying disclosures by Carrie herself.

Product Description: Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. Sharing an identical genetic make-up and an identical environment, these twins have provided a unique opportunity for the study of innate and cultural determinants on the individual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Clears up misconceptions about a famous case study of supposedly hereditary feeblemindedness, which was influential in shaping the eugenics movement and immigration legislation in the U.S