Acts of conscience : World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors /

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"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 nation⁰́₉s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities."

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Steven J., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical perspectives on disability.
Subjects:
Civilian Public Service > History.
Civilian Public Service
1900-1999
Psychiatric hospitals > United States > History > 20th century.
People with mental disabilities > Education > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscientious objectors > United States.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
World War II
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Éducation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Objecteurs de conscience > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Conscientious objectors
People with mental disabilities > Education
Psychiatric hospitals
United States
History
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