Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

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Notes Preface (page xviii) 1. John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence (New York: Hyperion, 1995), p. 79. 1. Heroes of Assimilation: Or How the Media Transform Disability (pages 1–23) 1. “Negative Media Portrayals of the ADA,” Beth Haller, The Americans with Disabilities Act Policy Brief Series: Righting the ADA, no. 5, February 20, 2003 (Washington: National Council on Disability), p. 2. 2. “Negative Media Portrayals of the ADA,” p. 18. 3. James I. Charlton, Nothing about Us without Us: Disability, Oppression and Empowerment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 8. 4. Charlton, Nothing about Us without Us, p. 36. 5. Charlton, Nothing about Us without Us, p. 35. 6. “Negative Media Portrayals of the ADA,” p. 1. 7. Joseph P. Shapiro, “Disability Rights as Civil Rights: The Struggle for Recognition,” in The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, edited by Jack A. Nelson (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 59. 8. Tari Susan Hartman, interview with the author, July 2004. 9. Amy Harmon, “The Disability Movement Turns to Brains: Neurodiversity Forever,” The Week in Review, New York Times, May 9, 2004, p. 1. 10. Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, reissued 1986), pp. 123–124. 11. Henri-Jacques Stiker, A History of Disability, translated by William Sayers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2000), pp. 123–124. 12. Stiker, A History of Disability, p. 132. 13. David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 35–36. 14. John W. Jacobson, James A. Mulick, and Allen A. Schwartz, “A History of Facilitated Communication: Science, Pseudoscience, and Antiscience: Science Working Group on Facilitated Communication,” American Psychologist, vol. 50, no. 9, 1995, pp. 750–765. 2. Whose Life Is It Anyway? The Use and Abuse of the Disibility Memoir (pages 24–49) 1. Morrie Schwartz, Morrie: In His Own Words (New York: Delta Books, 1996), p. 89. 2. David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), p. xii. 3. G. Thomas Couser, “Signifying Bodies,” in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder with Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (New York: Modern Language Association, 2002), p. 117. 4. Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, edited by Roger Shattuck with Dorothy Herrmann (New York: Norton, 2003), p. 120. 5. Keller, The Story of My Life, p. 107. 6. Roger Shattuck, afterword to Keller, The Story of My Life, p. 439. 7. Shattuck, afterword to Keller, The Story of My Life, p. 431. 8. Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie (New York: Doubleday, 1997), p. 57. 9. Schwartz, Morrie, p. 92. 10. Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man (New York: Hyperion, 2002), p. 226. 11. Fox, Lucky Man, p. 5. 12. Richard M. Cohen, Blindsided (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 147. 13. Cohen, Blindsided, p. 222. 14. Cohen, Blindsided, p. 225. 15. Cohen, Blindsided, p. 224. 16. John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones,Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence (New York: Hyperion, 1995), p. 27. 17. Hockenberry, Moving Violations, p. 24. 18. Hockenberry, Moving Violations, pp. 207–208. 19. Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind (New York: Dial Press, 1998), p. 180. 20. Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind, p. 183. 21. Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, translated by Jeremy Leggatt (New York: Knopf, 1997), p. 5. 22. Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, p. 103. 23. Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, pp. 24–25. 24. Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, p. 97. 25. George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 3. 26. Peter Brook, Threads of Time (New York: Counterpoint, 1998), p. 18. 27. Brook, Threads of Time, p. 195. 28. Brook, Threads of Time, p. 197. 29. Walter Abish, Double Vision: A Self-Portrait (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 57. 30. Abish, Double Vision, p. 193. 232 Notes 31. Donald P. Spence, Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1982), pp. 286–287. 32. Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (New York: Random House, 2000), p. ix. 33. Slater, Lying, p. x. 34. Slater, Lying, p. 148. 35. Slater, Lying, pp. 65–66. 36. Slater, Lying, pp. 220–221. 3. Getting It on...