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1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- About this Book -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Unfulfilled Promise -- 1. In the 'City of the Insane' (1867-87) -- 'The Maddest Place in the World' -- 'The Imbecile Class of the Insane' -- 'Susceptible of Instruction' -- An Asylum for 'Idiot Children' -- 2. 'Always a Curious Boy' (1887-1908) -- 'Incessant Attention' -- 'In Great Distress' -- 'Please Let Me Know How My Little Boy is Keeping' -- 3. 'For the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children' (1887-1907) -- 'An Institution for the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children' |
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'Herculean Difficulties' -- 'A Distinct Advance on Anything Yet Done for the Feeble-minded Children in Australia'? -- 'Results that Justify Its Continuance on the Present Scale' -- 4. 'Mental Defectives: A Serious Social Problem' (1907-24) -- 'An Up-to-Date Institution Elsewhere' -- 'Mental Defectives: A Serious Social Problem' -- 'An Indictment Against the Whole Community' -- 5. 'A New Deal for Mental Defectives' (1924-39) -- 'Dealing with the Menace of the Feeble-minded' -- 'I Just Did What I Was Told' -- 'Almost Like the Rock of Ages' -- 'A New Deal for Mental Defectives' |
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6. 'A Hillside of Sadness' (1939-50) -- 'Sorrowing Parents' -- 'A Hillside of Sadness' -- 'Our Out-dated Asylums' -- PART TWO: A Passion for Reform -- 7. Eric Cunningham Dax and the Reform of the Kew Children's Cottages (1951-60) -- Eric Cunningham Dax -- 'A Terrible Reproach to the Public Conscience' -- Getting to Work -- Untangling Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability -- 8. The Tipping Campaign and Public Support (1961-65) -- Fighting Red Tape -- Edmond William Tipping -- The Tipping Appeal -- Personal Stories of Residents of Kew Cottages |
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9. The Kew Cottages Parents' Association (1958-70) -- Origins of the Kew Cottages Parents' Association -- Early Days -- Benevolence, Fundraising and Welfare -- Advocacy -- 10. Normalisation Emerges (from 1970) -- Expansion of Services -- Changing Attitudes -- The Idea of Normalisation -- Victorian Committee on Mental Retardation -- Intellectually Disabled Persons' Services Act 1986 -- 11. A Disastrous Fire (1996) -- Inferno -- The Reaction -- 12. Deinstitutionalisation (1985-2008) -- The Closure of St. Nicholas -- The Process of Closure Gathers Pace -- The Closure of Kew Cottages |
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The End of an Era -- Development Battle -- Trouble at Kew -- Epilogue: Connecting Past and Present -- Change -- Continuity -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix of Institutions in Victoria for those with Intellectual Disabilities -- Acknowledgments -- Project Outcomes (2006-23) -- Book Publications -- Chapters and Articles -- Exhibitions -- Multimedia -- Websites -- Conferences and Symposiums -- Notes -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'In the City of the Insane' 1867-87 -- Chapter 2: 'Always a Curious Boy' 1887-1908 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 3: 'For the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children' 1887-1907 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holmes, Katie
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Broome, Richard
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| ISBN |
9781922633798 |
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1922633798 |
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