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Pathways to an institution for mental defectives.

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. [...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116725
Date January 1964
CreatorsWallace, Phyllis Elaine.
ContributorsRoseborough, H. (Supervisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Arts. (Department of Sociology and Anthropology.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library.

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