Pain and Shock in America – Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities...

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Jan Nisbet Nancy R. Weiss

Pain and Shock in America – Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities

Jan Nisbet, Nancy R. Weiss

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Brandeis University Press
02 November 2021

Disability: social aspects; Organisation & management of education; Teaching of specific learning difficulties & needs

The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of aversives in treatment for children with disabilities.

For more than twenty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scientists have written hundreds of articles for and against them, and people with disabilities have lost their lives and, some would say, lived their lives because of them. There are families who believe deeply in the need to use aversives to control their children’s behavior. There are others who believe the techniques used are torture. All of these families have children who have been excluded from numerous educational and treatment programs because of their behaviors. For most of the families, placement at the Judge Rotenberg Center is the last resort.

This book is a historical case study of the Judge Rotenberg Center, named after the judge who ruled in favor of keeping its doors open to use aversive interventions. It chronicles and analyzes the events and people involved for over thirty years that contributed to the inability of the state of Massachusetts to stop the use of electric shock, and other severe forms of punishment on children and adults with disabilities. It is a long story, sad and tragic, complex, filled with intrigue and questions about society and its ability to protect and support its most vulnerable citizens.

By: Jan Nisbet, Nancy R. Weiss
Imprint: Brandeis University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 750g
ISBN: 9781684580743
ISBN 10: 1684580749
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 02 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter I. A Long Story Chapter II. How We Got to This Place Chapter III. Encouraged to Expand to California Chapter IV. Pushing Back Chapter V. The Death of Vincent Chapter VI. The Food and Drug Administration Permits the Use of Electric Shock on People with Disabilities Chapter VII. Here Comes National Institutes of Health: A National Outcry After the Office for Children’s and Mary Kay Leonard’s Loss to BRI Chapter VIII. Staging the Next Battleground Chapter IX. Bad Faith or Responsible Government: Another Attempt to Limit the Use of Aversives Chapter X. Contempt Chapter XI. More Legal Issues and Advocates Take Action: Weiss and Nisbet Chapter XII. The FDA Bans the Electric Shock Device: A Final Ruling? Weiss and Nisbet Epilogue Chronology Endnotes Biographical Note

Jan Nisbet is professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where she served for ten years as the senior vice provost for research. Before assuming that position, she was the founding director of the Institute on Disability and professor in the Department of Education. She has been principal investigator on many state- and nationally-funded projects related to children and adults with disabilities.

Reviews for Pain and Shock in America – Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities

This important book brings to light the shameful history of torturous methods used on individuals with developmental disabilities. If animals or prisoners of war had been subjected to this torture, the perpetrators would have been charged with felony cruelty to animals or war crimes. I am hopeful that by exposing what has occurred at the Judge Rotenberg Center, this work will finally bring this sad chapter of our history to an end. -- Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures