...Sierra Powell; April A. Johnson Abstract Context: Previous research has shown that Americans with disabilities turn out to vote at significantly lower levels than people without disabilities, even after accounting for demographic and other situational factors related to political involvement. The...

...Alice K. Dueker Susan Stefan. Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001. 405 pp. $49.95 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

...Jerry L. Mashaw Edward H. Yelin. Disability and the Displaced Worker . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 203 pp. $38.00 cloth. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Burkehauser , Richard V. , Robert H. Haverman, and Barbara L. Wolfe. 1993 . How People...

...Frank S. Bloch Jerry L. Mashaw, Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983), 238 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985 Jerry L. Mashaw, Bureaucratic Justice...

...Sandra J. Tanenbaum Gary L. Albrecht. The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America . Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. 328 pp. $46.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 1016 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Bosk tried to “neutralize” his...

... fails to consider the discriminatory effects on people with disabilities. The case of Seff v. Broward County in 2012 addressed the question of whether wellness programs violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Finding a safe harbor in the ADA for bona fide insurance plans, the court concluded...

...Harlan Hahn Richard K. Scotch, From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984), 206 pp., $24.95 Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 783 (one of several such commissions in the late 1970s and early...

...Lisa I. Iezzoni James I. Charlton. Nothing about Us without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment . Berkeley: University of California Press,1998. 194 pp. $27.50 cloth; $16.95 paper; Rod Michalko. The Two in One:Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness . Philadelphia: Temple University...

...Deborah A. Stone Irving Howards, Henry P. Brehm, and Saad Z. Nagi, Disability: From Social Problem to Federal Program (New York: Praeger, 1980), 172 pp., $21–50 hardbound Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 284 Journal of Health Politics...

...Susan M. Olson Stephen L. Percy, Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy: The Politics of Implementation . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. 321 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reviews 933 expenditures have still ballooned, prospective payment reform...

...Ruth Colker; Michael E. Moritz Ruth O'Brien. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 302 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.00 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Colker, Ruth. 1999 . The Americans with Disabilities Act...

... physician-assisted suicide(PAS) legislation. In-depth, qualitative interviews with forty-five physically disabled residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, conducted by others with disabilities, revealed a wide breadth of opinions about and attitudes toward such legislation. For close to half of the...

... several northwestern European countries, as well as on documentation relating to the rapid growth of disability expenditures and the factors thought to influence it, some “lessons” are presented for policymakers in the United States and other countries. In general, current trends are seen as depressing...

...Frank J. Thompson Deborah A. Stone, The Disabled State (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984), 296 pp., $24.95. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Special Review 177 who carry antibodies to HTLV-IIULAV health insurance and employment are recorded in the press. So too...

...A. E. Benjamin Diane Rowland and Barbara Lyons, eds. Financing Home Care: Improving Protection for Disabled Elderly People . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 256 pp. $47.50 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Kane , Rosalie A. , and Robert L...

...Marshall B. Kapp Joseph J. Bevilacqua, ed., Changing Government Policies for the Mentally Disabled (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982), 320 pages, $28.50 Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 752 Jonnaal of Health Politics...

...Marshall B. Kapp Bruce Dennis Sales, D. Matthew Powell, Richard Van Duizend, and associates, Disabled Persons and the Law: State Legislative Issues (New York: Plenum Press, 1982), 879 pp., $75.00 Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Book Reviews 183...

...Gunnar Dybwad Diane Driedger, The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples' International (New York: St. Martin's, 1989), 137 pp., $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References National Federation of the Blind. 1970 . The First Thirty Years: A...

...Andrew I. Batavia; Gerben DeJong; Louise Bouscaren McKnew Long-term care for people with disabilities in this country traditionally has been provided through family members and friends. Federal and state policy has focused primarily on financing professional health care services provided through...

...Maxwell J. Mehlman; Melvyn R. Durchslag; Duncan Neuhauser Recent interpretations of laws prohibiting discrimination against persons with disabilities indicate that these laws will play a greater role in health care decision making than previously anticipated. This article employs lessons from other...