Hugh Gregory Gallagher (1932–2004)

Autore di FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public

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Opere di Hugh Gregory Gallagher

FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from… (1985) 101 copie

By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich (1990) 30 copie

Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power (1974) 12 copie

Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World (1998) 10 copie

Nothing to Fear: FDR in Photographs (2001) 8 copie

Advise and Obstruct; the Role of the United States Senate in Foreign Policy Decisions (1969) 3 copie

FDR's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher (1985-04-30) (1843) 1 copia

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Etichette

Alaska (4) Americans with Disabilities Act (1) Architectural Barriers Act (1) Bioetica (2) Biografia (18) BUY (1) da leggere (4) Developmentally Disabled Persons (2) Disabilità (3) disabilità (plurale) (5) Eugenetica (2) Eutanasia (4) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (13) Genocidio (2) Germania (4) Government/Criminal Justice (3) Grande depressione (2) Health Care for Specific Diseases/Groups (3) letto (5) morte e morendo (2) Nazi doctors (2) nazisti (2) Novecento (2) Olocausto (6) Patient Relationships (3) polio (8) Presidente (9) Presidenti degli Stati Uniti d'America (7) Prolongation of Life and Euthanasia (2) Right of the Institutionalized to Treatment (2) Roosevelt (7) Roosevelt Franklin D. (3) Saggistica (5) Seconda guerra mondiale (6) Sociology of Health Care (2) Storia (17) storia americana (7) T-4 (2) Terzo Reich (2) Torture and Genocide (2)

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Gallagher, Hugh Gregory
Data di nascita: 1932-10-18
Data di morte: 2004-07-13
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA

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FDR's Splendid Deception di Hugh Gregory Gallagher

A fascinating and revealing story of the daily struggle Roosevelt went through to prove the country that he was able bodied and capable of leading the nation. Reading this increases one understanding and persception of the physically challenged and will inspire support for all necessary accomidations.

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MarthaL | 2 altre recensioni | Nov 24, 2009 |

FDR's Splendid Deception di Hugh Gregory Gallagher

Most biographers of FDR treat his bout with polio as an episode in his life, something worthy of mention but not much more. Gallagher, himself a paraplegic polio (he prefers that term to "polio victim" or "survivor"), points out how impossible it would be for paraplegia, which affects every minute of a person's day, the attitudes of others, and a person's self-concept, not to be the central fact of Roosevelt's adult life. In fact, the myth that polio was an inconvenience that FDR overcame was a carefully nurtured construct. The author's insight makes this a uniquely perspicacious biography.… (altro)

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muumi | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 4, 2009 |

Fdr's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of… di Hugh Gregory Gallagher

Wonderful book with great insight to the manipulations of FDR and his administration---as well as the difference of that era's media, who refused to make his handicap visible.