Notes on Contributors

Andrew I. Batavia is associate director for health services research at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A lawyer, he focuses professionally on health care service delivery for persons with disabilities. Mr. Batavia recently published a study on medical rehabilitation service payments.

Gerben Dejong is director of research at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, and professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A specialist in the relations between disability and health services research, and between disability and health outcome measurement, he has written extensively on specific problems of impairment and general perspectives on disability policy.

Daniel M. Fox is professor of humanities in medicine and director of the Center for Assessing Health Services at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His professional interests include analysis of health and social policy and the history of medicine in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Fox is the author of several articles on the relations between changing epidemiology and health policy in the twentieth century.

Robert Griss is a disability policy analyst at the World Institute on Disability in Berkeley, California, and a research fellow at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. He has recently published articles on strategies for adapting health insurance systems to health needs of people with disabilities or chronic illness, and measuring the health insurance needs of that population.

Stanley S. Herr is associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and a staff member of its Clinical Law Office. He is the author of the volume Rights and Advocacy for Retarded People, and coauthor of another work on legal rights and mental health care. In addition to disability law, Professor Herr’s current interests include legal perspectives on homelessness and public interest law practice.

Richard K. Scotch is associate professor of sociology and political economy in the School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of two monographs and numerous articles on disability rights, politics, and policy. Dr. Scotch also has professional interests in the relations between culture and public policy, as well as between social policy and reform movements.

Sandra Tanenbaum is senior researcher in the Ohio Department of Social Services. She is the author of Engineering Disability: Public Policy and Compensatory Technology, among other analyses of social welfare programs. Dr. Tanenbaum’s professional interests center on the history and policy of the Medicaid program, health care technology, and disability policies generally.

Irving Kenneth Zola is professor of sociology at Brandeis University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous works on disability policy. The founding member and first president of the Society for Disability Studies, Dr. Zola also founded and serves as a member of the board of the Boston Self Help Center and is the publisher and editor of Disability Studies Quarterly. He has recently completed an analysis on aging and disability.

Download the article

Read on JSTOR

Volume 67, Issue S3 (pages 429–430)
Published in 1989