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William Bronston (born March 1939) is an American psychiatrist and activist. Bronston is known for his involvement in the deinstitutionalization of Willowbrook State School in the early 1970s.
On April 30, 2019, Dr. William Bronston delivered a Willowbrook Memorial Lecture at City University New York. Fifty years later, as Dr. Bronston stated, “The only way we’re going to transform the Willowbrooks of society is through law and a new democracy that we have to generate.”.
Dr. William Bronston: During the International Year of Disabled Persons, which was initiated by the United Nations to essentially spend a year addressing the importance of full integration and full meaningful roles for people with special needs in society.
Dr. William Bronston: To say to somebody "Be alive," it's a whole different message. You hear and see a whole different thing. And it's something you never forget.
Psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Fraad is joined by activist physician William Bronston MD to discuss his astonishing book 'Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America': ...more.
Oct 22, 2021 · In Doctor William Bronston’s defining book, Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America, he takes on all of America’s institutions, the segregated nursing home...
William Bronston was a physician and activist whose career reflected the rise of disability rights consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s, especially as it applied to children and adults with developmental disabilities.
