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.
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.
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.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
World War II
United States.
United States
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Work of national importance under civilian direction"
  • "Religious training and belief"
  • "An experiment in democracy"
  • "A significant epoch in your life"
  • "Detached units"
  • "A working compromise between church and state"
  • "Out of sight, out of mind"
  • "A mind that found itself"
  • "They asked for a hard job"
  • "Bughousers" and "conchies"
  • "The exposé as a progressive tool"
  • "They were fighting everybody"
  • "Mental hospitals are again under fire"
  • "Another growing pain"
  • "Scandal results in real reforms."

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