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Shut away : when Down syndrome was a life sentence
- Title
- Shut away : when Down syndrome was a life sentence / Catherine McKercher.
- Author
- McKercher, Catherine, 1952-
- Publication
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- 261 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "'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."--
- Subjects
- Intellectual disability facilities
- Brothers and sisters of people with disabilities > Canada > Biography
- Families
- Intellectual disability facilities patients > Abuse of > Canada
- Mental health facilities > Canada
- Intellectual disability facilities > Canada
- Down syndrome > Patients > Family relationships
- Canada
- McKercher, Catherine, 1952- > Family
- Down syndrome > Patients > Biography
- People with mental disabilities > Abuse of > Canada
- People with mental disabilities > Care > Canada
- McKercher, Bill, 1956-1995
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2372
- ISBN
- 9781773100982
- 177310098X
- OCLC
- 1090484051
- Author
- McKercher, Catherine, 1952- author.
- Title
- Shut away : when Down syndrome was a life sentence / Catherine McKercher.
- Publisher
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Other Form:
- Online version: McKercher, Catherine, 1952- Shut away. Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2019 1773101005 9781773101002 (OCoLC)1090815510
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2372