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Physician-advocate for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities : exposing conditions at Willowbrook State School in New York, medical director and consultant for the state of California /
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Title:

Physician-advocate for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities: exposing conditions at Willowbrook State School in New York, medical director and consultant for the state of California
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Bronston, William, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Cowan, Kathryn, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

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

Abstract:

Childhood and family in Beverly Hills; USC Medical School, 1961-1965; fellowship with the Child Development Clinic at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 1961; residency at Menninger School of Psychiatry and Topeka State Hops ital, 1965-68; union activism in Topeka; limited knowledge of the disability movement, 1968; work at Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, New York, 1970-73; lecturer in Special Education at Syracuse University, 1973-1975; consultant and medical director to California State Department of Health, 1975; Ed Roberts and transfer to State Department of Rehabilitation, 1980; founding the California Institute on Human Services, 1981; International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981; reauthorization of the Federal Rehabilitation Act, 1992; Project Interdependence; reflections on health care, human rights, and activism.

Date:

2001 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-ny
People with mental disabilities -- Services for -- California
Developmentally disabled -- Services for -- California
People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- New York (State)
Developmentally disabled -- Institutional care -- New York (State)
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle -- Services -- Californie
Personnes atteintes de troubles du développement -- Services -- Californie
Developmentally disabled -- Institutional care
Developmentally disabled -- Services for
People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care
People with mental disabilities -- Services for
California
New York (State)
Willowbrook State School.
California. -- Department of Health.
California. -- Department of Rehabilitation.
Project Interdependence.
California Institute on Human Services.
California. -- Department of Health
California. -- Department of Rehabilitation
California Institute on Human Services.
Willowbrook State School.
Bronston, William -- Interviews

Note:

William Bronston ; interviews conducted by Kathy Cowan in 2001-2002.
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 4040 C).
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 (x, 224 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
17 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.