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A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta´s Eugenic Years
Claudia Malacrida
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Description for A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta´s Eugenic Years
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 3JJ; JFFG; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442626898
SKU
V9781442626898
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About Claudia Malacrida
Claudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.
Reviews for A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta´s Eugenic Years
'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
Nelle Oosterom Canada's History Magazine, June-July, 2015