Broken : institutions, families, and the construction of intellectual disability /

"After 133 years of operation, the 2009 closure of Ontario's government-run institutions for people with intellectual disabilities has allowed accounts of those affected to emerge. In Broken, Madeline Burghardt draws from narratives of institutional survivors, their siblings, and their par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burghardt, Madeline C., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 50.
Temas:
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care > Ontario > History.
People with mental disabilities > Government policy > Ontario > History.
People with mental disabilities > Family relationships > Ontario > History.
People with mental disabilities > Ontario > Social conditions.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Soins en institutions > Ontario > Histoire.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Politique gouvernementale > Ontario > Histoire.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Relations familiales > Ontario > Histoire.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Ontario > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
People with mental disabilities > Family relationships.
People with mental disabilities > Government policy.
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care.
People with mental disabilities > Social conditions.
Ontario.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; BROKEN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Terminology; Introduction: The Asylum's Accomplice, or the Creation of Intellectual Disability; PART ONE: INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN CONTEXT; 1 Institutions for the Feebleminded: Theory, History, and Context; 2 Ontario's Institutional Legacy; 3 Choosing to Institutionalize: Politics, Families, and the Pressures of Cold War Conformity; PART TWO: STORIES; 4 Survivors: "It wrecked me sadly"; 5 Siblings: "He was a secret"; 6 Parents; 7 Former Staff and Key Informants; PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS; 8 Power, Governance, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; References; Index

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