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Author Taylor, Steven J., 1949-

Title Acts of conscience : World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors / Steven J. Taylor.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical perspectives on disability
Critical perspectives on disability.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents "Work of national importance under civilian direction" -- "Religious training and belief" -- "An experiment in democracy" -- "A significant epoch in your life" -- "Detached units" -- "A working compromise between church and state" -- "Out of sight, out of mind" -- "A mind that found itself" -- "They asked for a hard job" -- "Bughousers" and "conchies" -- "The exposé as a progressive tool" -- "They were fighting everybody" -- "Mental hospitals are again under fire" -- "Another growing pain" -- "Scandal results in real reforms."
Summary "In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation⁰́₉s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities."
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Subject Civilian Public Service -- History.
Civilian Public Service.
History.
Civilian Public Service -- History.
World War (1939-1945)
Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Psychiatric hospitals.
United States.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject People with mental disabilities -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
People with mental disabilities -- Education.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Taylor, Steven J., 1949- Acts of conscience. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009004376
ISBN 9780815651406 (electronic book)
0815651406 (electronic book)
9780815609155 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0815609159 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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