Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors

by Steven J. Taylor

In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation's mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609159
• ISBN13: 9780815609155
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 10.3"