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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Telethons
    sub title: spectacle, disability, and the business of charity
  name:
    name part: Longmore, Paul K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 326 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Marshaling two decades' worth of painstaking research, Paul Longmore's book provides the first cultural history of the telethon, charting its rise and profiling the key figures--philanthropists, politicians, celebrities, corporate sponsors, and recipients--involved"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Abbreviations -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Charity Professionals: Ambivalent Generosity and the New Business of Philanthropy -- Chapter 2. Neither Public Nor Private: Telethons in the U.S. Health and Welfare System -- Chapter 3. The Hidden Politics of Telethons: Where Volunteerism, Government, and Business Meet -- Chapter 4. "They've Got a Good Thing with Us and We've Got a Good Thing with Them": -- Telethons and Cause-Related Marketing -- Chapter 5. Givers and Takers: Conspicuous Contribution and a Distinctly American Moral Community -- Chapter 6. Dignity Thieves: Greed, Generosity, and Objects of Charity -- Chapter 7. Suffering as Spectacle: Pity, Pathos, and Ideology -- Chapter 8 "Look at Us We're Walking": Cure-Seekers, Invalids and Overcomers -- Chapter 9 American and Un-American Bodies: Searching for Fitness through Technology and Sport -- Chapter 10. Smashing Icons: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability -- Chapter 11. "Heaven's Special Child": The Making of Poster Children -- Chapter 12. Family Burdens: Parents, Children, and Disability -- Chapter 13. Jerry's Kids Grow Up: Disability Rights Activists and Telethons -- Conclusion: The End of Telethons and Challenges for Disability Rights -- Afterword -- Notes.
  note: Paul K. Longmore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Telethons
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities in mass media
  subject:
    topic: Disabilities
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of disability
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
  classification: PN1992.8.T44 L66 2016
  classification: 791.45/6
  classification: HIS036060 HIS054000 SOC052000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Telethons
    name:
      name part: Longmore, Paul K, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
    identifier: (DLC) 2016000512
  identifier: 9780190262075
  identifier: 0190262079
  identifier: 2015050036
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151223
    record change date: 20170928111738.0
    record identifier: in00003609649
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng