About the Author

Steven J. Taylor is Centennial Professor of Disability Studies in the School of Education and codirector of the Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. He is the coauthor of In Search of the Promised Land and The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories, among other books. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Qualitative Sociology.

Reviews

Set your moral compass by this book. Taylor's curiosity and his outrage have yielded a lucid, compelling, and eminently readable historical narrative . . . . Acts of Conscience clearly establishes conscientious objectors as credible witnesses and actors of extraordinary courage and purposefulness. Through their eyes we view unimagined brutality and degradation, and, by their example, learn how to combat people and institutions which brutalize and degrade human beings.-- "Simi Linton, author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity and My Body Politic"