Acts of conscience : World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors / Steven J. Taylor.
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TextSeries: Critical perspectives on disabilityPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780815651406
- 0815651406
- Civilian Public Service -- History
- Civilian Public Service
- 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
- United States
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- 362.2/1 22
- RC443 .T39 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"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."
Print version record.
"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."
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