Claudia Malacrida

A Special Hell

Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649538
• ISBN-10: 1442649534
• Artikelnr.: 41619913

Autorenporträt

Claudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.

Inhaltsangabe

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