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Excerpt from: A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions In the last 2 years, I have visited a number of public institutions in several states, and on each occasion I have reacted with disbelief and bewilderment to what I saw. I found it difficult to understand how a society which is built on such noble principles, and which has the resources to make these principles a reality, can and will tolerate the dehumanization of a large number of its citizens in a fashion somewhat remindful of Nazi concentration camps.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions | |
| From: | Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded | |
| Creator: | Bengt Nirje (author) | |
| Date: | January 10, 1969 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publisher: | President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C. | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | ch.4, pp.53-57 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Burton Blatt; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Deinstitutionalization; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Government; Government Agencies; Holocaust; Human Rights; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; Neglect; Normalization; Policy; Prejudice; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; Restraints; Social Welfare & Communities; Sweden; Wolf Wolfensberger | |
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