Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors by Steven J. Taylor

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

Steven J. Taylor

504 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

history religion informative medium-paced

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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 intel...

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