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Shut Away - When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence (Paperback)
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Shut Away - When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence (Paperback)
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List price R559
Loot Price R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
You Save R101 (18%)
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An explosive book that exposes the abuses of
institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?"
It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when
Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer
it.Three of the McKercher children lived at home. The fourth, her
youngest brother, Bill, did not. Bill was born with Down syndrome.
When he was two and a half, his parents took him to the Ontario
Hospital School in Smiths Falls and left him there. Like thousands
of other families, they exiled a child with disabilities from home,
family, and community.The rupture in her family always troubled
McKercher. Following Bill's death in 1995, and after the sprawling
institution where he lived had closed, she applied for a copy of
Bill's resident file. What she found shocked her.Drawing on primary
documents and extensive interviews, McKercher reconstructs Bill's
story and explores the clinical and public debates about
institutionalization: the pressure to "shut away" children with
disabilities, the institutions that overlooked and sometimes
condoned neglect and abuse, and the people who exposed these
failures and championed a different approach.
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