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Issues of life, death, and identity : the role of disability advocacy and scholarship /
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Issues of life, death, and identity: the role of disability advocacy and scholarship
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Coleman, Diane, 1953-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Gill, Carol J., interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Cowan, Kathryn, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.

Abstract:

Childhood and disability diagnosis; University of Illinois, 1974-76; rejecting disability identity; JD/MBA program at UCLA, 1977-181; California Department of Corporations, 1982-89; Westside Center for Independent Living, Bouvia "right-to-die" case; ADAPT transportation demonstrations, 1985; Technology Access Center in Nashville, 1991-96; beginnings of Not Dead Yet, 1996; Jack Kevorkian, Stephen Drake, and assisted suicide protests; 1997 Supreme Court action
Childhood and family in Chicago, Illinois; onset of polio, 1954; Saint Xavier College, 1966-70; interactions with the Westside Center, 1976; discrimination in job search; job at Glendale Adventist Rehabilitation Institute; acting director of disability studies at USC; founding the Chicago Institute of Disability Research; Americans with Disabilities Act; joining faculty of the University of Illinois, Chicago in disability studies; Not Dead Yet and the Elizabeth Bouvia case, 1986; issues of assisted suicide and prenatal screening; disabled women's issues.

Date:

2002 (issued)

Contents:

State and national organizer for ADAPT, founder of Not Dead Yet / Diane Coleman -- Scholar and advocate on issues of disability culture, health, and bioethics / Carol Gill.

Subject:

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People with disabilities -- United States -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Transportation -- United States
Disability studies -- United States
Women with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions
Assisted suicide -- United States
Prenatal diagnosis -- United States
Personnes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Transport -- États-Unis
Études sur le handicap -- États-Unis
Femmes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
Aide au suicide -- États-Unis
Diagnostics prénatals -- États-Unis
Assisted suicide
Disability studies
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Transportation
Prenatal diagnosis
Women with disabilities -- Social conditions
United States
American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation.
Not Dead Yet (Organization)
Chicago Institute of Disability Research.
American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation.
Coleman, Diane -- 1953- -- Interviews
Gill, Carol J -- Interviews
Bouvia, Elizabeth

Note:

interviews conducted by Kathy Cowan in 2002.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4052 C). Diane Coleman, no. 1-5; Carol Gill, no. 6-9.
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

1 volume (vi, 136 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
9 audiocassettes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.