- Organization that is odedicated to protecting the choice for the disabled to live in homes rather than nursing homes.
- Increasing accesibility for the disabled in public spaces.
- Critiquing the industrial realities that results in discrimination towards those with disabilities.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

- Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
- Disability Rights Movement
- Not Dead Yet

Important Movements/Organizations of Bioethics in Disability History

The Hastings Center Report, November- December 2005, Vol. 35, No. 6, Special Report: Improving End of Life Care: Why Has it Been so Difficult? (November- December 2005), pp. S31- S36

Recognizing Death while Affirming Life (The Hastings Center)

Petronis, C. (n.d.). Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT). Duke Social Movements. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://socialmovements.trinity.duke.edu/groups/americans-disabled-attendant-programs-today-adapt 

Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (Duke University)

- Global movement that advocates for equal rights for individuals with disabilities.
- Has had success in changing laws and social attitudes towards those with disabilites.
- Has roots in the 1960s, and grew along with the Women's Rights Movements and Civil Rights Movement.

Disability Rights Movement

- Disability Rights Organization that opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia for the disabled.
- Ensuring that the witholding of life-sustaining treatment is truly voluntary. and not being enforced my medical provider.

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