Overview
- Summary
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2004]
©2004 - Locale
- Massachusetts
Waltham
Waltham (Mass.) - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0743245121
9780743245128
9780743245135
074324513X - Additional Form
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Also issued online.
- Physical Description
- vi, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- 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. Boys. Walter E. Fernald State School.
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