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The state boys rebellion / Michael D'Antonio.

Publication | Library Call Number: HV995.W262 W354 2004

Discusses the mid-twentieth-century practice of institutionalizing children with low IQ scores and recounts the story of boys at a state school in Massachusetts who fought for their freedom.

Book cover

Format: Book
Author/Creator: D'Antonio, Michael.
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2004
Locale: Massachusetts
Waltham
Waltham (Mass.)
Language: English
External Link: Sample text
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

Physical Description: vi, 308 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN: 0743245121
9780743245128
9780743245135
074324513X
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
Additional Form: Also issued online.
Subjects: Boys--Institutional care--Massachusetts--Waltham--History.
Children with mental disabilities--Institutional care--Massachusetts--Waltham--History.
Inmates of institutions--Abuse of--Massachusetts--Waltham--History.
Child abuse--Massachusetts--Waltham--History.
Boys--Institutional care.
Child abuse.
Children with mental disabilities--Institutional care.
Inmates of institutions--Abuse of.
Massachusetts--Waltham.
Enfant handicapé mental.
Soins en institution.
Enfant maltraité
Histoire.
Garçon.
20e siècle.
Massachusetts.
Waltham (Mass.)
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
Child, Institutionalized--history.
Adolescent, Institutionalized.
Eugenics--history.
Mentally Disabled Persons--history.
Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation--history.
History, 20th Century.
History.
Walter E. Fernald State School.
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