Discusses the mid-twentieth-century practice of institutionalizing children with low IQ scores and recounts the story of boys at a state school in Massachusetts who fought for their freedom.
Genres
- Abuse of
- Boys
- Child abuse
- Children with mental disabilities
- History
- Inmates of institutions
- Institutional care
- Walter E. Fernald State School
- Institutionalized Child
- Mentally Disabled Persons
- Psychiatric Hospitals
- Garçon
- Enfant handicapé mental
- Institutionalized Adolescent
- History, 20th Century
- Histoire
- 20e siècle
- Eugenics
- Enfant maltraité
- Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
- Soins en institution
- Residential Facilities
- Professional Misconduct
- Persons with Mental Disabilities
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