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Pennhurst State School and Hospital
- Title
- Pennhurst State School and Hospital / J. Gregory Pirmann and the Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance.
- Author
- Pirmann, John Gregory
- Publication
- Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV3006.P4 P57 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance.
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.
- Summary
- For nearly 80 years, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was a reminder of how society viewed and treated people with intellectual disabilities. Over its existence, Pennhurst was home to more than 10,600 people. Many spent decades there, working to keep the institution running by performing various jobs. While some enjoyed the lives they had fashioned for themselves at Pennhurst, for many others, life there was crushing. Pennhurst also played a central role in the lives of its employees and in the rural Pennsylvania community where it was located. Controversy plagued the institution for its entire existence, and it is remembered primarily as a place where bad things happened. However, it was much more than that. This book provides a window into that separate world, reminding those who were part of it of what they saw and did there and giving those who know only what they have heard or seen a different picture of what Pennhurst truly was.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America
- Subject
- Pennhurst State School (Pa.) > History > Pictorial works
- Pennhurst State School (Pa.)
- People with mental disabilities > Institutional care > History > Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township) > Pictorial works
- Psychiatric hospitals > Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township) > History > Pictorial works
- Intellectual disability facilities > Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township) > History > Pictorial works
- Mentally ill > Rehabilitation > History > Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township) > Pictorial works
- People with disabilities > Rehabilitation > History > Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township) > Pictorial works
- Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
- Institutionalization > history
- Mentally Ill Persons > history
- Intellectual disability facilities
- Mentally ill > Rehabilitation
- People with disabilities > Rehabilitation
- People with mental disabilities > Institutional care
- Psychiatric hospitals
- East Vincent (Pa. : Township) > History > Pictorial works
- Chester County (Pa.) > History, Local > Pictorial works
- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania > Chester County
- Pennsylvania > East Vincent (Township)
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial Work
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- History
- Local history
- Pictorial works
- Illustrated works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Contents
- Creating a separate world -- Building the institution -- Making it work -- The school -- The people of Pennhurst -- The unseen Pennhurst -- After the doors closed.
- ISBN
- 9781467123662
- 1467123668
- LCCN
- 2014958703
- 99970419722
- OCLC
- ocn907161528
- 907161528
- SCSB-9437383
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library