The Girls and Boys of Belchertown: A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded

ISBN-13: 9781558499447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Robert N. Hornick

Opis

During much of the twentieth century, people labeled feeble-minded, mentally deficient, and mentally retarded were often confined in large, publicly funded, residential institutions located on the edges of small towns and villages some distance from major population centers. At the peak of their development in the late 1960s, these institutionsfrequently called schools or homeshoused 190,000 men, women, and children in the United States.