Dubono describes her daughter's mental illness and treatment. After 36 years of psychiatric drugs, her "tirades" were still fresh. In addition she had gained several physical illnesses, while her cognition and functioning had declined into severe disability.. In view of the absence of any health worker in the group home to monitor severe side effects, she concludes that lack of transparency and the fact that high school graduates staff only obeyed orders blind fully, constitutes an enormous violation of patients rights and is an illegal human research project. Radical change was greatly overdue, but would not happen until all legislation made it illegal. As well as demand a more active participation at work highlighting each worker's special skills and talents, and creativity. This fear driven mentality is a monster in the aisle and must be slain before it destroys the very fabric of humanity, progress and liberty. Perhaps this is what Senator Bernie Sanders was referring to.

The author laments that today's work force is not directed to use their talent and abilities to contribute to progress but instead are forced into robot-like obedience of their instructions, which do not allow creativity. This result in a deteriration of private lives as well as that of the advancement of civilization

The author relates some of the circumstances that led her to petition for guardianship of her adult daughter who had a diagnosis of mental illness, autism, developmental disability, dyslexia, OCD, and learning disabiliity. Her efforts to protect her from the injury inflicted by neuroleptics, and the various avenues she explored for treatment as well as diagnosis are also related here with honesty, details, and helpful suggestions and comments.

Science fiction-roman.

Transcending time and space, Hyacinth enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to find her daughter who disappeared mysteriously at age three. Sherlock locates her on a distant planet Terrorista. She was adducted by mad scienntists sponsored by their government to study the mechanism of planet Debonnaire Neuroleptics as these interfere with communications between habitants of these planets through what is called on debonnaire hallucinations.

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.

This 4-volume report is the product of the Task Force on Youth Suicide presented to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The task force developed six recommendations that address the most urgent needs for research, education and services to prevent youth suicide.

The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines the multiple varieties of family forms in which gay men and lesbians live, addresses the ramifications of homosexuality on family relationships, and explores the countless aspects of parenthood as they are experienced by gay men and lesbians, including adoption and foster care by lesbians and gay men, and the choice of increasing numbers of lesbians to bear children through artificial fertilization. Any professional who is interested in the family--educators, clinicians, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as others interested in families and in human sexuality and men’s and women’s studies--family science, gay studies, nursing, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, social work--will find this book useful, insightful, and unique.

Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.