03614nam 2200649 a 450 991078190130332120200520144314.00-8156-5140-6heb40054(CKB)2550000000051377(EBL)3410033(SSID)ssj0000564920(PQKBManifestationID)11319000(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564920(PQKBWorkID)10532310(PQKB)10626278(MiAaPQ)EBC3410033(OCoLC)759158734(MdBmJHUP)muse3678(Au-PeEL)EBL3410033(CaPaEBR)ebr10493598(CaONFJC)MIL946794(dli)heb40054.0001.001(MiU)MIU400540001001(EXLCZ)99255000000005137720090202d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrActs of conscience[electronic resource] World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors /Steven J. Taylor1st ed.Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press20091 online resource (503 p.)Critical perspectives on disabilityDescription based upon print version of record.0-8156-0915-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes."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."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 nation's mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America's treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. Acts of Conscience brings to light the extraordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. --from publisher description.Critical perspectives on disability.Psychiatric hospitalsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPeople with mental disabilitiesEducationUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945Conscientious objectorsUnited StatesPsychiatric hospitalsHistoryPeople with mental disabilitiesEducationHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Conscientious objectors362.2/1Taylor Steven J.1949-124274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781901303321Acts of conscience3820272UNINA