DHM: Library Catalog - A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions (Document)

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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....

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:	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

OBJECTS	FROM THIS ARTIFACT: - Action Implications, U.S.A. Today (doc) - A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen (doc) - A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions (doc) - The Normalization Principle And Its Human Management Implications (doc) - The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models (doc) - Why Innovative Action? (doc)

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