A Special Hell : Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years / Claudia Malacrida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malacrida, Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Michener Centre--History.

Michener Centre.

People with mental disabilities--Institutional care--Alberta--Red Deer--History--20th century.

People with mental disabilities.

People with mental disabilities--Education--Alberta--Red Deer--History--20th century.

People with mental disabilities--Abuse of--Alberta--Red Deer--History--20th century.

Sterilization (Birth control)--Alberta--Red Deer--History--20th century.

Sterilization (Birth control).

Alberta--Social policy.

Alberta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures And Tables

Acknowledgments

A Note On Language

A Special Hell. Institutional Life In Alberta'S Eugenic Years

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2050-1

1-4426-2049-8

OCLC:

905361935