Special Hell - Institutional Life in Alberta''s Eugenic Years

Informationen zum Autor Claudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Klappentext 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 at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta. Zusammenfassung 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 at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introducing the Michener Centre 2. Entering the Gulag, Leaving the World 3. Dehumanization as a Way of Life 4. Ordinary and Extraordinary Violence 5. Resisting the Institutional Order 6. Broken Promises: Education in the Institution 7. Training, Exploitation, and Community Dependency 8. Bad Medicine: Drugs, Research, and Ethics 9. Eugenics and Sexuality 10. But That’s All in the Past, Isn’t It? Appendix I: Research Participants – Biographical Information Appendix II: History, Power, and Access to Knowledge

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Malacrida
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442649538
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4953-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research