- 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.

Not Dead Yet

- 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.

Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today

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

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- Important Cases
- Important Movements
- Important Figures
- Summarization of End of Life Treatment in Disability History

History of End of Life Treatment in Disability History

Important Figures of Bioethics in Disability History

Important Movements/Organizations of Bioethics in Disability History

- Bouvia v. Superior Court,179 Cal. App. 3d 112, 225 Cal. Rptr. 297 (1986)
- 1989 Case of David Rivlin
- In Re Quinlan 70 N.J. 10, 355 A.2d 647 (1976)
- Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997)
- 1998-2005 Case of Terri Schiavo
- 2005 Case of Barbara Howe

Case Law Regarding Bioethics in Disability History

- When it came to the medical view of disabilities, it was difficult to understand disabilities through an emotional viewpoint. Instead, methodical developments to treat disabilities were developed (see "Important Figures of Bioethics in Disability History").
- During the late 1900s, many cases involving the medical professional's role in continuing or discontinuing treatment occured, which overall gave the family first say in these situations (see "Case Law Regarding Bioethics in Disability History")
- Organizations related to Disability rights began to develop, focusing on rights such as those with disabilities being able to refuse: assisted suicide, life-sustaining treatment, and living at the nursing home. (See Important Movements/Organizations of Bioethics in Disability History").

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