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OverviewUsing 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 in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the connection between institutionalization and eugenics. Malacrida explains how isolating the Michener Centre's residents from their communities served as a form of passive eugenics that complemented the active eugenics program of the Alberta Eugenics Board. Instead of receiving an education, inmates worked for little or no pay - sometimes in homes and businesses in Red Deer - under the guise of vocational rehabilitation. The success of this model resulted in huge institutional growth, chronic crowding, and terrible living conditions that included both routine and extraordinary abuse. Combining the powerful testimony of survivors with a detailed analysis of the institutional impulses at work at the Michener Centre, A Special Hell is essential reading for those interested in the disturbing past and troubling future of the institutional treatment of people with disabilities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claudia MalacridaPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781442626898ISBN 10: 1442626895 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 14 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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 KnowledgeReviews‘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 * '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 Author InformationClaudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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