Contested memories: Efforts of the powerful to silence former inmates' histories of life in an institution for 'mental defectives'

Disability and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 397-410

  Malacrida, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

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EID: 33749491350     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590600785720     Document Type: Article

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