Special Hell
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‘Malacrida draws from a vast amount of documentation. Her book is packed with statistics and academic writing but leavened with direct testimony from inmates and staff. …valuable for anyone with an interest in this dark period of institutional history.’
» Nelle Oosterom, Canada's History Magazine, June-July, 2015
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Les mer
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Combining the powerful testimony of survivors with a detailed analysis of the institutional impulses at work at the Michener Centre, A Special Hell is essential reading for those interested in the disturbing past and troubling future of the institutional treatment of people with disabilities.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781442626898
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
‘Malacrida draws from a vast amount of documentation. Her book is packed with statistics and academic writing but leavened with direct testimony from inmates and staff. …valuable for anyone with an interest in this dark period of institutional history.’
» Nelle Oosterom, Canada's History Magazine, June-July, 2015