Abberley, Paul, 64
ADA Amendments Act, ix
Adkins, Janet, 149
Administration on Aging, 151
affirmative action, 20, 30, 32, 43–46, 56, 65, 142, 174
Africa, 84
Age Discrimination Act, 65
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 58
Albertsons, Inc. v. Kirkingburg, 53, 65, 77
Allen, Robert, 168
American Association of People with Disabilities, 116, 199
American Association of Retired Persons, 129
American Banking Association, 16
American Bar Association, 51
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, 51, 63
American Civil Liberties Union, vii–viii
American Economic Association, 69
American Enterprise Institute, 127–29
American Public Transit Association, 9
Americans with Disabilities Act, 23–24, 63, 116, 185
Bush administration and, 128
Business Week on, 33
civil rights model and, 21
court cases and, 37–39, 46, 51–54, 64–65, 75–80, 101, 142
Iraq and, 122
limitations of, ix, 32, 61–65, 70–72
prisons and, 94
reasonable accommodations and, 15–16, 24, 64, 78
Republicans and, 111
text of, 184
wages and, 30
American Trucking Associations, 54, 78
Arizona, 38
Armbrister, Trevor, 41
Ashcroft, John, 122
Asia, 84
assisted suicide, 139, 145–48, 150, 156, 200
Association of Socialist Physicians, 168
AT&T, 168
Austria, 163
Baker, J. N., 164
Barnes, Colin, 64
Baugh, Scott, 30
Bell, Alexander Graham, 102, 197
The Bell Curve (Murray), 166
Bernstein, Jared, 48
Beveridge Report, 3
Beyond Ramps (Russell), viii
Binding, Rudolf, 152
Blackfeet Nation, 74
Black Panther Party, 9
Blanchflower, David, 27
Boyd, Ralph, 141
Brack, Viktor, 159
Bradley, Steven J., 37
Brannick, Mike, 83
Brazil, 7
Bredesen, Phil, 131
Bristo, Marca, 79
Britain, 1, 3, 7, 9–10. See also England
Brookings Institution, 127
Brooks, Vincent, 127
Brown, Willie, 99
Budget and Appropriations Committees, 99
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 26
Burgdorf, Robert, Jr., 64
Bush, George H. W., 41, 45, 70
Bush, George W., 33–34, 76, 140, 141
ADAAA and, ix
employment rates and, 35
employment under, 39
Hurricane Katrina and, 135–136
Iraq and, 120–22, 124, 126–27, 130, 132
stimulus of, 137
Bush, Jeb, 129
Business Roundtable, 110
California, 86, 90, 97–98, 109, 123, 130, 131
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, 104
Canada, 7
capitalist class, 2–5, 13, 17, 18, 22
Carnegie, Andrew, 165
Carnegie Institution, 155
Carnegies, 166
Carnoy, Martin, 48
Carrel, Alexis, 164
Cedillo, Gilbert, 99
Center, Claudia, 78
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 70
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 107
Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, 91
Charlton, Jim, 5
Cheney, Dick, 121, 123–24, 128–30
Chevron USA, Inc. v. Echazabal, 79–80
Chicano movement, 8
Children’s Defense Fund, 32
China, 33
Chomsky, Noam, viii
Citibank, 34
capitalism and, viii, 42, 50–51
federal government and, 122, 141
job discrimination and, 38
limitations of, 32, 45–46, 59, 62–65, 67, 70
Supreme Court and, 77
unemployment and, 25
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 41, 43–45, 48, 65, 76, 185
Civil Rights Acts, ix
civil rights movement, vii, 6, 8, 45, 65
Civil War, 90
Clement, Mary, 200
Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems, 52–53
Clinton, Bill, 24–25, 31, 57, 61, 80, 117, 124
Cobell, Elouise, 74
Colamosca, Anne, 59
Cold Spring Harbor, 155
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 87
Coleman, Diane, 148
Commentary, 128
Committee for the Scientific Treatment of Severe, Genetically Determined Illness, 158
Committee to Strengthen Social Security, 107
Community Services Administration, 45
Americans with Disabilities Act, ix, 41–42, 70, 76–78, 85
deinstitutionalization and, 91
housing and, 140
Native Americans and, 74
welfare reform and, 61
Zionism, 124
Congressional Research Service, 62
Connally, Patrick, 100
Constitution, 94
Continuing Disability Reviews, 108
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 199
Coolidge, Calvin, 34
Coombs Lee, Barbara, 150
Corps of Engineers, 136
Crips Against War, 122
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx), 13
Cruise, Tom, 148
Curren, Judith, 149
Czechoslovakia, 163
Darity, William, 49
Darwin, Charles, 153–54, 161, 165–66
Davenport, Charles B., 155
Davis, Angela, viii
Death with Dignity, 145
Defense Planning Guidance, 129
Democracy Now!, 74
Department of Agriculture, 115
Department of Health and Human Services, 19
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 111
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 135, 137–38, 173
Department of Rehabilitation, 82
The Descent of Man (Darwin), 153
Diller, Matthew, 64
Dinkins, David N., 57
Disability Insurance Trust Fund, 107, 110
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, 64
disability rights movement, 6–8, 22, 43, 51, 63, 66, 70, 78, 141–43
handicapitalism and, 83
nursing homes and, 103
Disabled and the Cost of Saying ‘I Do’ (Russell), viii
Disabled in Action, 8
Disabled Peoples’ International, 124, 143
The Disabled State (Stone), 17
Disney, 168
Domer, Adolf, 156
Duke, Cheryl, 81
Du Ponts, 163
Eastern Europe, 33
Economic Report of the President, 33–34
EEOC, 84
Eighth Amendment, 94
Empire, 130
England, 153, 155, 156, 165. See also Britain
English Poor Laws, 6
Enron, 129
Equal Employment Advisory Council, 54, 78
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 16, 37–38, 63, 79
Equal Pay Act of 1963, 43, 44, 185
Erevelles, Nirmala, 64
Ethiopia, 163
Ethix Corp., 150
Europe, 83
in-home services and, 6
rate of, 16
reserve army and, 32
workhouses and, 4
FBI, 202
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 136
Federal Reserve, 26, 59, 61, 68
Federal Reserve Bank, 25–29, 35
Federal Rights Project, 75
Ferguson, Wilkie, Jr., 95
Financial Times, 127
Fortune 500, 81
Foucault, Michel, 89
Freedom to Die (Humphry), 145
Frick, Wilhelm, 155
Frist, Bill, 129
Fromm, Erich, 21
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, 26
gay and lesbian movement, 8
Gaylin, Willard, 146
General Accounting Office, 109
General Electric, 34
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 80
Gleeson, Brendan, 64
Goldberg, Jonah, 128
Goldin, Claudia, 48
Goodwill Industries, 174
Gore, Al, 83
Gould, W. A., 164
Great Depression, 8, 28, 42, 122
Great Society, 45
Greenhouse, Steven, 57
Grotjahn, Alfred, 167
Haiti, 169
Hardt, Michael, 130
Harriman, Mary, 155
Harrimans, 166
Harris Survey, 16, 28, 43, 45, 117
Health, Education, and Welfare, 9
health insurance, 15, 79, 109–10, 122
assisted suicide and, 150
handicapitalism and, 82
mental illness and, 92
reform and, 24
Hemlock Society, 145, 148, 151
Hemmings, Clare, 197
Henwood, Doug, 35
Heritage Foundation, 112
Herman, Alexis, 24
Hershey, Laura, 114
Hitler, Adolf, 157, 158, 160, 163
Hoche, Alfred, 152
homophobia, 6
Honduras, 169
House Commerce Committee, 147
House of Representatives, 121, 129, 132
House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, 109, 197
housing, ix, 132, 135, 137–40, 142, 173
Human Betterment Foundation, 155
Humphrey-Hawkins Act, 26
Humphry, Derek, 145, 147, 151, 200
IG Farben, 163
Imparato, Andy, 116
imperialism, ix
Inclusion International, 143
independent living movement, 7–8, 10, 22, 97–98, 102
Independent Living Resource Center, 97
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 127, 129, 142
Indonesia, 169
in-home services, 5, 97–99, 101, 104, 126, 142, 147, 151
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith), 162
International Criminal Court, 143, 200
International Monetary Fund, 142
Iraq, 120, 121, 125–27, 130, 132, 175
Italy, 163
Japan, 163
job accommodations, 3
Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 164
J. P. Morgan Chase & Co, 34
Kahler, Rick, 41
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 155
Katz, Lawrence, 48
Kennedy, Nancy Becker, 115
Kevorkian, Jack, 146, 148–51, 200
Keynes, John, 194
Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, 65
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., 65, 68
Kristol, Irving, 128
Krugman, Paul, 127
Labor Department, 24, 30, 44, 48
Land Mine Ban Treaty, 143, 200
Lappé, Frances Moore, viii
Lay, Ken, 129
League for the Physically Handicapped, 8
Ledeen, Michael, 128
Lennox, W. G., 164
Lenz, Fritz, 155
Levine, Linda, 63
Lewis, Anthony, 95
Libby, “Scooter” Lewis, 129
liberalism, 12, 21, 60–61, 65–66, 72, 80
Lilienthal, Georg, 157
Lockdown America (Parenti), 87
Los Angeles, vii, 99, 113, 115, 120, 123–24, 139
Mandel, Ernest, 64
Mankiw, Gregory, 34
Man, the Unknown (Carrel), 164
Mantsios, Gregory, 60
disablement and, 13
racism and, 56
social movements and, 12
Marx, Karl, viii, 17, 22, 23, 165, 194
Critique of the Gotha Programme, 13
Fromm on, 21
General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, 26
labor theory of value and, 14, 49
on reserve army of labor, 27, 32, 64, 87
Social Darwinism and, 18
surplus population and, 23
Maryland, 57
Mason, Patrick, 49
Massachusetts, 138
mass incarceration, ix
Mayerson, Arlene, 64
McCarthyism, 61
McNeil, John, 44
Mead, Walter Russell, 163
assisted suicide and, 146
deinstitutionalization and, 91
handicapitalism and, 82
Medicare Part D and, 132
nursing homes and, 5, 102, 176
prisons and, 92
Work Incentives Improvement Act and, 24
Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, 151
handicapitalism and, 82
Iraq and, 122
Part D, 132
Work Incentives Improvement Act and, 24
Mellons, 163
mental illness, 88–95, 173, 175–76, 196
ADA and, 77
employment and, 3
eugenics and, 153
fascism and, 154, 156, 159, 160
Hurricane Katrina and, 133
mental impairment, 12, 18, 53, 86, 176
Merrill Lynch, 34
Michigan, 10
Microsoft, 31
Miller, Sherry, 148
minimum wage, 16, 30, 46, 50, 56, 57, 60, 98–100, 138, 174
Minnesota, 131
Mishel, Lawrence, 48
Mississippi, 131
Montgomery, 58
Murdock, Rupert, 128
Murphy v. United Parcel Serv., 53, 65, 77
Murray, Charles, 166
Mussolini, 163
Nader, Ralph, 80
NAFTA, 35
National Association of Manufacturers, 16, 54, 110
National Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center, 54
National Coalition for the Homeless, 32
National Council on Disability, 79, 140
National Council on Independent Living, 116
National Elder Abuse Incidence Study, 151
National Federation of Independent Business, 16
National Organization on Disability, 16, 28, 43, 117, 135
National Review, 128
National Senior Citizens Law Center, 104
Native Americans, 74
Nazi Physicians’ League, 157
neoliberalism, 6, 42, 59, 65, 137, 145
New Deal, 112
New York City, 57–58, 83, 91–92, 161
New York University, 28
NGOs, 7
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 156
Nike, 168
Nixon, Richard M., 8
Nuremberg trials, 161
commodification of impaired bodies and, 5, 20
Oakland Press, 149
O’Brien, Ruth, 77
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 90, 174
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 77
Office of Economic Opportunity, 45
O’Neill, Paul, 121
The Origin of Species (Darwin), 153
Orshansky, Mollie, 115
Oswald, Andrew, 27
Oxycontin, 146
patriarchy, 6
Peeno, Linda, 147
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections et al. v. Ronald R. Yeskey, 94
Pentagon, 127
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 31, 56
Pfeiffer, David, 116
Philippines, 34
Piore, Michael, 69
Ploetz, Alfred, 154
Posner, Richard, 71
Clinton on, 25
disabled rates of, 3, 19, 43, 173–74
globalization and, 36
housing and, 138
independent living movement and, 8
prisons and, 87
Social Darwinism and, 18
Prison Industry Authority, 90
Progressive movement, 167
Project for the New American Century, 129
Public Housing Authorities, 132, 140
Public Interest, 128
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Proctor), 157
Racial Hygiene Society, 155
racism, 6, 47–50, 56, 128, 188–89
courts and, 67
income inequality and, 44
job discrimination and, 31
liberalism and, 65
Ramm, Rudolf, 154
Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Hospital, 123–24
Reagan, Ronald, 45, 91, 108–9, 111, 128, 137
Red Cross, 135
Reebok, 168
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 9, 24, 30, 75–76, 138–39, 142
Rehberg, Alice, 38
Release and Destruction of Lives Not Worth Living (Hoche and Binding), 152
Riviera, Laura, 57
Roberts, Paul Craig, 70
Rockefeller Foundation, 155
Rockefeller, John D., 102, 165, 197
Rockefellers, 163
The Rolling Quads, 7
Roman Catholic Church, 160
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 112
Rothschilds, 166
Rüdin, Ernst, 155
Ruggles, Patricia, 116
Rumsfeld, Donald, 121, 124, 128–29
San Francisco Chronicle, 98
San Francisco Examiner, 97
Santayana, George, 152
Schmitt, John, 48
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 131
Senate Special Committee on Aging, 99
Service Employees International Union, 97–100
Simmel, Ernst, 167
Simon, Paul, 70
Slate, 79
Smith, Adam, 27, 47, 49, 162, 165–66, 168, 194
Smith, C. Emanuel, 38
Social Darwinism, 18, 150, 152–54, 156, 161–66, 169
Social Security
definition of disability, 17
handicapitalism and, 82
Social Security Act, 111
Social Security Administration, 106, 108–9, 113–14, 118, 175
definition of disability, 52
Social Security Amendments of 1956, 110
Social Security Disability Coalition, 108, 197
Social Security Disability Insurance, vii, viii, 19, 20, 43, 52, 53, 82, 106, 107, 108–12, 115, 174–75, 178, 180, 185
Social Security Earnings Test Elimination Act, 117
Social Security Return-to-Work program, 56
Social Security taxes, 20
Souter, David, 80
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 65
Spencer, Herbert, 153–54, 164–66, 168
Spitzer, Steven, 92
Spolar, Wallace, 149
Spragens, John, 131
Standard Oil, 163
Sterilization Law, 154
Stern, Andrew, 99
Stevens, John Paul, 53
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 103
The Study of Sociology (Spencer), 168
substantial gainful activity, 115–16
Supplemental Security Income, 19–20, 43, 110, 113–15, 131, 134, 174, 180, 185
Supreme Court, 52–54, 65, 74–77, 79–80, 94, 101, 142, 185
Sutton v. United Airlines, 53, 65, 77
Tehachapi Prison, 90
TennCare, 131
Tennessean, 129
Tennessee, 131
Texas, 79
Thomas, Clarence, 80
Thompson, E. P., 14
Ticket to Work, 115
Times-Picayune, 136
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, 48–49
Toyota Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams, 78
Trade Regulation Organization, 127
Tucker, Bonnie, 64
Tuitel, Johnnie, 81
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 143, 200
UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 200
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 143, 200
UN Declaration of Human Rights, 142–43
underemployment, 2, 14, 28, 35, 42, 55
Black workers and, 65
capitalism and, 14, 19, 49, 59–60, 66, 68–69
disabled rates of, 2, 16, 24, 45, 62–63, 82, 83, 173
Federal Reserve and, 25–27, 35, 68
as reserve army, 10, 23, 25–28, 87
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 200
Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation, 1, 179
unions, 6, 9, 37, 61, 110. See also Service Employees International Union United Nations, 120, 141–43, 199
United States Treasury, 107
United States v. Morrison, 65
UnumProvident, 109
US Airways v. Barnett, 78
US Army, 127
US Census, 4
US Chamber of Commerce, 16, 78, 79, 110
US Commission on Civil Rights, 50
US Commission on Civil Rights, 50, 64
US News, 104
Vickrey, William, 69
Vietnam, 8
Violence Against Women Act, 65
Vladeck, B. C., 103
Vonnegut, Kurt, 148
Walker, Alice, 151
Wall Street, 20, 25–28, 33, 59, 61, 102, 111, 147, 202
Ward, Lester Frank, 166
Watson, James, 87
Weimar Republic, 155, 162, 165, 167
Welch, Jack, 34
crisis of, 6
post-war period of, 4
WE magazine, 83
Western Europe, 84
Westrich, James L., 48
Whirlwind Wheelchair International, 122
White House Council of Economic Advisers, 33–34, 58
Wisconsin, 57
Wolff, Edward, 28
Wolfowitz, Paul, 121, 124, 129
Wolman, William, 59
women’s movement, 8, 43, 128, 167
Work Experience Program, 57
Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, 24, 115
Works Progress Administration, 8
World Blind Union, 143
World Federation of the Deaf, 143
World Federation of the Deafblind, 143
World Health Organization, 1
World Institute on Disability, 98, 115
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, 143
World Trade Organization, 127
World War I, 156
Yeskey, Ronald R. See Pennsylvania Department of Corrections et al. v. Ronald R. Yeskey
Yes Men, 127
Youk, Thomas, 149