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Pence, Ray. "First and Foremost a Scientist?: Lee Meyerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948-1988," American Studies, University of Kansas, December 2005.
The project addresses the career of Lee Meyerson (1919-2002), who was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas, Arizona State University (ASU), and other institutions, and a founder of rehabilitation psychology. Meyerson had multiple disabilities and dedicated his work to helping people with disabilities, especially children with mental retardation. His career started in the late 1940s and ended in the 1990s. Near the end of his tenure at ASU, Meyerson sued the university for employment discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, our nation’s first disability civil rights law. The dissertation’s central concerns are Meyerson’s two-tiered involvement with changing social definitions of disability: as a scholar and as a litigant. I argue that while Meyerson was active and successful in the world of the professional scholar and in the arena of disability rights activism, he belonged fully to neither social entity. My primary theoretical lens is the social model of disability, which sees disability not as a biological or medical problem confined to individuals, but instead as a construction of social attitudes, barriers, practices and values. The narrative of Meyerson’s unique career is situated within a historical context that draws on critical knowledge of the Enlightenment, the rise of psychology and rehabilitation as professions, and the disability rights movement.
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