Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven J. TaylorSeries:Critical Perspectives on DisabilityPublish date:2009-07-10Pages:484
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815609155ISBN-10:815609159UPC:9780815609155Book Category:History, PsychologyBook Subcategory:United States, PsychopathologyBook Topic:20th CenturySize:10.30 x 7.30 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.553Product ID:SCX2N4ZJ03
In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation's mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815609155ISBN-10:815609159UPC:9780815609155Book Category:History, PsychologyBook Subcategory:United States, PsychopathologyBook Topic:20th CenturySize:10.30 x 7.30 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.553Product ID:SCX2N4ZJ03
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...
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