This study investigates some of the variations in factors underlying the identification of children as mental defectives and the decision to commit them to an institution. The fieldwork was carried out at the State Training School for Mental Defectives in St. Louis, Missouri. The data consist of material abstracted from case records of eighty-seven recent admissions to the institution and of interviews with parents of twenty of these children. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116725 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Wallace, Phyllis Elaine. |
| Contributors | Roseborough, H. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Sociology and Anthropology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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