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Book SynopsisUsing 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.
Trade Review'Malacrida draws from a vast amount of documentation. Her book is packed with statistics and academic writing but leavened with direct testimony from inmates and staff. ...valuable for anyone with an interest in this dark period of institutional history.' -- Nelle Oosterom Canada's History Magazine, June-July, 2015
Table of Contents1. 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
