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| EXCERPT: 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.... |
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| TITLE: |
A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions |
| CREATOR: |
Bengt Nirje (author) |
| DATE: |
January 10, 1969 |
| FORMAT: |
Government Document |
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| FROM: |
Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded |
| PUBLISHER: |
President’s Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C. |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
ch.4, pp.53-57 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Burton Blatt, Children, Cognitive Disability, Deinstitutionalization, Economics, Government, Holocaust, Human Rights, Institutions, Mental Retardation, Neglect, Normalization, Policy, Prejudice, President's Committee On Mental Retardation, Restraints, Sweden, Wolf Wolfensberger |
| | | SEE ALSO | FROM THIS ARTIFACT:
- Action Implications, U.S.A. Today
- A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen
- The Normalization Principle And Its Human Management Implications
- The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models
- Why Innovative Action? | |
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