1st Edition

Put Away Institutions for the Mentally Retarded

By Pauline Morris Copyright 1969
390 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospitals and residential services for the subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to be given of the scale and severity of certain problems. The basis has been laid for an evaluation of the effectiveness of hospitals for the... Read more
One: Background to the Survey; Introduction; 1: Social Aspects of Subnormality; 2: The Design of the Survey; 3: Hospital Provision for the Mentally Subnormal; Two: Survey Findings; 4: The Patient Population; 5: The Physical Environment and Facilities; 6: The Problems of Staffing; 7: Education, Training and Other Specialist Services 1; 8: Life and Relationships in Hospital; 9: Relationships Between the Hospital and the Community; 10: Blackbrick and Cloverfield 1 : A Study of two Subnormality Hospitals; 11: Voluntary Hospitals and Homes; Three: Discussion; 12: The Ideology of Treatment; 13: Organizational Characteristics of the Subnormality Hospital; 14: Summary and Concluding Comments 1

Biography

Pauline Morris